Modelling Human Variation in Assembly Line Models
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Discrete event simulation models allow engineers to understand and predict the behaviour of manufacturing systems. A standard way of taking workers into account is to model them as resources not considering any person, organisational or environmental influences. Worker behaviour differs notably between people, tasks and systems which has an impact on the individual processing times and in the end on the output of the manufacturing system. Ignoring this fact causes inaccuracy in the results from the simulation model, especially when modelling systems with highly manual work content, such as assembly lines. The paper describes the ongoing research of investigating the importance of incorporating human performance variation models into manufacturing system simulation models.
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