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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Highly Iterative Planning of Mixed-Model Assembly Lines
Authors : J. Maetschke, B. Fränken, F. Sauermann, A. Gützlaff, G. Schuh
Published in: Production at the leading edge of technology
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Manufacturing companies are confronted with increasing market and innovation dynamics resulting from the demand for differentiated products. This leads to increasing importance of flexibility and versatility as objectives of production, especially in final assembly, since the highest variant-induced complexity occurs there. For this reason and to avoid investment costs for product-dedicated assembly lines, companies strive to assemble several products on one assembly line in a so-called model mix. Highly iterative product development is increasing in order to take the mentioned volatile market environment into account. However, this agile development methodology contradicts the sequential processes of production development and the solution space already defined by the existing production system. In order to address this conflict of objectives, this paper proposes a procedure for a holistic and cross-domain development cooperation for the integration of a new product on an existing assembly line.