Analysis of the Influence of Conveyor Speed on the Behaviour of an Automobile Assembly Line

  1. Ferreira, L. 2
  2. E. Ares, G. 1
  3. G.C. Pelaez, L. 1
  4. Salgado, M. 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

  2. 2 Instituto Politécnico do Porto
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    Instituto Politécnico do Porto

    Oporto, Portugal

    ROR https://ror.org/04988re48

Libro:
DAAAM International Scientific Book 2010
  1. Branko Katalinic (ed. lit.)

Editorial: DAAAM International Publishing ; DAAAM International Vienna

ISSN: 1726-9687

ISBN: 978-3-901509-74-2

Ano de publicación: 2010

Páxinas: 463-470

Tipo: Capítulo de libro

DOI: 10.2507/DAAAM.SCIBOOK.2010.41 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Resumo

The work described in this article consists of the development of a simulation model in an Arena environment, based on a real case, and is aimed at a very specific class of production lines, with a four closed-loop network configuration. The purpose of the use of an Arena simulation environment was that of enabling the production engineer to evaluate the performance of the automobile assembly line, through the variation of different parameters, thus contributing to an improved specification, characterisation and definition of the most efficient control system.In this paper we analyze the influence of the speed of the intermediate buffers formed by conveyors in assembly line performance, which has still not been researched in specialist literature. In order to obtain the functions that describe the behaviour of the assembly system, the design of an experiments technique was used.