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Título del libro: A Proposal For Optimizing Urban Mobility In Mexico City Based On The Public Transport Network
Título del capítulo: Balancing of a manufacturing workstation, using a simulation and optimization model

Autores UNAM:
ANN GODELIEVE WELLENS;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2016
Palabras clave:

Combinatorial optimization; Machine shops; Manufacture; Metal working; Optimization; Welding; Assignment problems; Engineering teams; Machine productivity; Machine settings; Metalworking industry; Simulation; Simulation and optimization models; Simulation model; Productivity


Resumen:

This paper describes the balancing of a manufacturing workstation in a metalworking industry, using simulation to predict the productivity of a workstation consisting of ten pressure welding machines, and afterwards optimizing the operation time, by assigning welding tasks to the different machines depending on the demand requirements. The operation time depends on the number of welding points that are achieved at the time, thus machine productivity is mainly related to the configuration required for each new product. Production and engineering teams of the facility are interested in knowing what would be the best workstation performance for future projects, considering possible machine settings. A simulation model was developed to get estimates of future machine productivity, obtaining the required parameters to optimize the workstation's overall operation time by means of an optimized task schedule.


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