Models for assembly line balancing by temporal, spatial and ergonomic risk attributes

Assembly lines with mixed products present ergonomic risks that can affect productivity of workers and lines. Because of that, the line balancing must consider the risk of injury in regard with the set of tasks necessary to process a product unit, in addition to other managerial and technological at...

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Autores: Bautista Valhondo, Joaquín|||0000-0002-2214-4991, Batalla García, Cristina, Alfaro Pozo, Rocío|||0000-0001-8214-1875
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositório:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/82998
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/82998
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.12.042
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Assembly-line balancing
Ergonomics
Manufacturing
Ergonomic risks
Flexible manufacturing systems
Assembly line balancing
Linear programming
Treball en cadena
Programació heurística
Ergonomia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses
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Resumo:Assembly lines with mixed products present ergonomic risks that can affect productivity of workers and lines. Because of that, the line balancing must consider the risk of injury in regard with the set of tasks necessary to process a product unit, in addition to other managerial and technological attributes such as the workload or the space. Therefore, in this paper we propose a new approach to solve the assembly line balancing problem considering temporal, spatial and ergonomic attributes at once. We formulate several mathematical models and we analyze the behavior of one of these models through case study linked to Nissan. Furthermore, we study the effect of the demand plan variations and ergonomic risk on the line balancing result