The Impact of Mean Flow Time When Operating a Flexible Manufacturing System as a Programmable Transfer Line
One central aspect of lean production is the employment of multi-skilled workers, as opposed to specialized workers. With multi-skilled workers, any work team can complete any job, from start to finish. A job shop is an eclectic collection of machines of different process capabilities. In contrast,...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
1999
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/923 https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.1999.808312 |
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| Summary: | One central aspect of lean production is the employment of multi-skilled workers, as opposed to specialized workers. With multi-skilled workers, any work team can complete any job, from start to finish. A job shop is an eclectic collection of machines of different process capabilities. In contrast, most modern flexible manufacturing systems consist of only one or two types of variable-mission machines. In this paper, the authors contend that the variable-mission machines in FMS are analogous to the multi-skilled workers in lean production. |
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