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| Title: |
A case study in productivity-cost trade-off in the design of paced parallel production systems |
| Author: |
Freiheit, T. Wang, W. Spicer, Patrick |
| Appeared in: |
International journal of production research |
| Paging: | Volume 45 (2007) nr. 14 pages 3263-3288 |
| Year: |
2007-07 |
| Contents: |
This paper examines the investment and operational cost differences between high-volume serial CNC-based machining lines and parallel CNC-based machining lines. With the progress of CNC technology and their descending cost, more CNC machines have been used in high-volume production systems. CNC machines increase the flexibility and machining capability of production lines, greatly increasing the number of line configurations. Parallel configurations improve system throughput and have the same effect as adding buffers to a pure serial line but without additional work-in-process inventory. This analysis is performed through a case study of a CNC-based automotive cylinder head machining line. Examining machine reliability, line balance, configuration throughput, and cost yields insight into the cost-benefit tradeoff of implementing parallelism. It is found that even with large increases in investment in automated material handling, parallel configurations can yield significant annual cost savings over pure serial lines through reductions in capital investment, especially in CNC machines, and improvements in efficiency, and on a per unit capacity basis, parallel configurations are the least expensive. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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