Performance of cellular bucket brigades with hand-off times

• Main Author: LIM, Yun Fong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: bucket brigades; assembly lines; dynamic line balancing; work-sharing; self-organizing systems; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4544; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5543/viewcontent/yflim_POM2017_pp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A cellular bucket brigade is a way to coordinate workers along an aisle with work content on both sides. Each worker in a cellular bucket brigade works on one side of the aisle when he proceeds in one direction, and he works on the other side when he proceeds in the reverse direction. Although the c...