TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a fully automated robotic spot-welding line
AU - Akturk, M. Selim
AU - Tula, Adnan
AU - Gultekin, Hakan
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The mixed model assembly line design problem includes allocating operations to the stations in the robotic cell and satisfying the demand and cycle time within a desired interval for each model to be produced. We also ensure that assignability, precedence and tool life constraints are met. Each pair of spot welding tools can process a certain number of welds and must be replaced at the end of tool life. Tool replacement decisions not only affect the tooling cost, but also the production rate. Therefore, we determine the number of stations and allocate the operations into the stations in such a way that tool change periods coincide with the unavailability periods to eliminate tool change related line stoppages in a mixed model fully automated robotic assembly line. We provide a mathematical formulation of the problem, and propose a heuristic algorithm.
AB - The mixed model assembly line design problem includes allocating operations to the stations in the robotic cell and satisfying the demand and cycle time within a desired interval for each model to be produced. We also ensure that assignability, precedence and tool life constraints are met. Each pair of spot welding tools can process a certain number of welds and must be replaced at the end of tool life. Tool replacement decisions not only affect the tooling cost, but also the production rate. Therefore, we determine the number of stations and allocate the operations into the stations in such a way that tool change periods coincide with the unavailability periods to eliminate tool change related line stoppages in a mixed model fully automated robotic assembly line. We provide a mathematical formulation of the problem, and propose a heuristic algorithm.
KW - Automobile industry
KW - Line balancing
KW - Robotic assembly line
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052566644
SN - 9789898425751
T3 - ICINCO 2011 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
SP - 387
EP - 392
BT - ICINCO 2011 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
T2 - 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2011
Y2 - 28 July 2011 through 31 July 2011
ER -