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| Title: | An approach for improving design of system variants |
| Author (s): | Lakshminarayana, R. E. Takai, Shun |
| Department/Lab Affiliations: | Design Engineering Center Intelligent Systems Center Interdisciplinary Engineering |
| Keywords: | Assembly quality Design for assembly Manual assembling Mixed model manual assembling |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Citation: | Lakshminarayana, R. E., and Takai, S., 2006, “An Approach for Improving Design of System Variants,” Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, IL. IMECE2006-14989. |
| Abstract: | In the past decades, firms have increased automated assembly operation to improve productivity and reduce human errors; however, manual assembling is still a necessary operation for complex and large-scaled systems that require high reliability. Furthermore, since customers demand more variety in systems, firms increasingly assemble variants of a system in a single assembly line. In this mixed model assembling operation, there are higher chances of assembly errors due to interchanging of geometrically similar parts between system variants. Design for Assembly (DFA) is a design guideline that assists engineers to design systems that are easier to assemble; however, DFA does not provide any guideline for simultaneously designing variants of system being assembled in mixed model operation. Furthermore, incentive schemes for assembly operators that may influence both assembly productivity and errors have not been the scope of DFA research. In this research, the authors conducted assembling experiments with students to investigate how non-geometric part information and incentive schemes affect the assembly productivity and quality in mixed model assembling operation. |
| Type: | Article - Conference proceedings text |
| In Title: | Proceedings of IMECE2006 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2006, Chicago, Illinois USA IMECE2006 |
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| title | An approach for improving design of system variants |
| contributor.author | Lakshminarayana, R. E. |
| contributor.author | Takai, Shun |
| contributor.deptlab | Design Engineering Center |
| contributor.deptlab | Intelligent Systems Center |
| contributor.deptlab | Interdisciplinary Engineering |
| subject | Assembly quality |
| subject | Design for assembly |
| subject | Manual assembling |
| subject | Mixed model manual assembling |
| date.issued | 2006 |
| publisher | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| identifier.citation | Lakshminarayana, R. E., and Takai, S., 2006, “An Approach for Improving Design of System Variants,” Proceedings of 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, IL. IMECE2006-14989. |
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| description.abstract | In the past decades, firms have increased automated assembly operation to improve productivity and reduce human errors; however, manual assembling is still a necessary operation for complex and large-scaled systems that require high reliability. Furthermore, since customers demand more variety in systems, firms increasingly assemble variants of a system in a single assembly line. In this mixed model assembling operation, there are higher chances of assembly errors due to interchanging of geometrically similar parts between system variants. Design for Assembly (DFA) is a design guideline that assists engineers to design systems that are easier to assemble; however, DFA does not provide any guideline for simultaneously designing variants of system being assembled in mixed model operation. Furthermore, incentive schemes for assembly operators that may influence both assembly productivity and errors have not been the scope of DFA research. In this research, the authors conducted assembling experiments with students to investigate how non-geometric part information and incentive schemes affect the assembly productivity and quality in mixed model assembling operation. |
| type | Article - Conference proceedings |
| type.DCMIType | text |
| type.status | Final version |
| rights | This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. |
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| relation.isPartOf | Proceedings of IMECE2006 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2006, Chicago, Illinois USA IMECE2006 |
| date.accessioned | 2007-04-11T17:00:48Z |
| date.available | 2008-05-09T13:57:07Z |
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