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Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers (대한산업공학회)
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Rules of Three Untrained Workers' Assignment Optimization in Reset Limited-Cycled Model with Multiple Periods

  • Song, Peiya (Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University) ;
  • Kong, Xianda (Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University) ;
  • Yamamoto, Hisashi (Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University) ;
  • Sun, Jing (Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology) ;
  • Matsui, Masayuki (Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University)
  • Received : 2015.01.29
  • Accepted : 2015.12.18
  • Published : 2015.12.30
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Abstract

In labor-intensive enterprise, such as garment factory, assembly line is widely used as a manufacturing process for reducing costs and production time. However, for the sake of the various working capacity of worker, idle or delay may happen and influence the rear processes. If these unforeseeable delay happened continuously, it may influence the whole manufacturing process and a model, which is called limited-cycle model with multiple periods (LCMwMP), is assumed to evaluate the influence risk. In order to minimize the risk, the assignment of the workers is focused on. In this paper, we deal with an assembly line as LCMwMP model when two kinds of workers exist, whose efficiency is assumed to two different groups. We consider an optimization problem for finding an assignment of workers to the line that minimizes total expected risk, which is exchanged to expected cost by reset model of LCMwMP. First, reset model as a simple model of LCMwMP is introduced. Then, some hypotheses of the rules of the optimal worker assignment are proposed and some numerical experiments are researched assuming the processing time as Erlang distribution. Finally, the other rules on other certain conditions are discussed.

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