Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology
Efforts taken by manufacturing companies to meet the increasing demand for product variety often lead to a proliferation of subassemblies. In this paper, we show that careful design of product assembly sequence helps create generic subassemblies that reduce subassembly proliferation and the cost...
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| author | Gupta, Saurabh Krishnan, Viswanathan |
| author_facet | Gupta, Saurabh Krishnan, Viswanathan |
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| description | Efforts taken by manufacturing companies to meet the increasing demand for product
variety often lead to a proliferation of subassemblies. In this paper, we show that careful
design of product assembly sequence helps create generic subassemblies that reduce
subassembly proliferation and the cost of offering product variety. This approach of
designing the assembly sequence to maximize the benefit from commonality of
components and assembly operations, referred to as product family-based assembly
sequence design, is the focus of this paper. After introducing the approach with a simple
example, we formalize the notion of generic subassemblies, and present an algorithmic
approach to identify generic subassemblies. We illustrate the algorithm with an example
from the literature of an assembly from industry, and provide computational test results of
the complexity and benefits of product family-based assembly sequence design. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/14722019-04-11T09:46:29Z Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology Gupta, Saurabh Krishnan, Viswanathan manufacturing subassemblies Efforts taken by manufacturing companies to meet the increasing demand for product variety often lead to a proliferation of subassemblies. In this paper, we show that careful design of product assembly sequence helps create generic subassemblies that reduce subassembly proliferation and the cost of offering product variety. This approach of designing the assembly sequence to maximize the benefit from commonality of components and assembly operations, referred to as product family-based assembly sequence design, is the focus of this paper. After introducing the approach with a simple example, we formalize the notion of generic subassemblies, and present an algorithmic approach to identify generic subassemblies. We illustrate the algorithm with an example from the literature of an assembly from industry, and provide computational test results of the complexity and benefits of product family-based assembly sequence design. 2002-07-18T16:21:18Z 2002-07-18T16:21:18Z 2002-07-18T16:21:19Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1472 en_US IMVP;190a 1689370 bytes application/pdf application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | manufacturing subassemblies Gupta, Saurabh Krishnan, Viswanathan Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology |
| title | Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology |
| title_full | Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology |
| title_fullStr | Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology |
| title_short | Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology |
| title_sort | product family based assembly sequence design methodology |
| topic | manufacturing subassemblies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1472 |
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