Assembly system design and operations for product variety
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Assembly is the capstone process for product realization where component parts and subassemblies integrated together to form the final products. As product variety increases due to the shift from m production to mass customization, assembly systems must be designed and operated to handle such variety. In this paper we first review the state of the art research in the areas of assembly system des planning and operations in the presence of product variety. Methods for assembly representa sequence generation and assembly line balancing are reviewed and summarized. Operational comple and the role of human operators in assembly systems are then discussed in the context of product var Challenges in disassembly and remanufacturing in the presence of high variety are presented. We t conjecture a future manufacturing paradigm of personalized products and production and discuss assembly challenge for such a paradigm. Opportunities for assembly system research are summarize the end of the paper. 2011 C
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