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WANG Nan, LI Shi-qi, WANG Jun-feng, ZHANG Zhen-li. Research of Dynamic Material Handling in an Automobile General Assembly Line Based on Real-time Information[J]. International Journal of Plant Engineering and Management, , (): -

Research of Dynamic Material Handling in an Automobile General Assembly Line Based on Real-time Information
WANG Nan, LI Shi-qi, WANG Jun-feng, ZHANG Zhen-li
School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,P. R. China
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The status of material delivery of an automobile general assembly line is analyzed,and the technique to achieve the real-time tracking of assembly statas information is proposed based on RFID(Radio Frequency Identification). Thus the consumption of line-side buffer is obtained dynamically,then the type and quantity of needed material are fed back to the subsystem of material handling; the algorithm for determining the best time departure time of delivery driver based on minimizing of total time penalty function is proposed. This approach makes the ma-terial amount of a single delivery trip maximized and improves the efficiency of delivery drivers significantly in the case of does not affect the assembly line normal throughput. Additionally,although this dynamic material handling method is developed for the automobile assembly plant,it should be pointed out that this method is also applicable to other mixed model assembly plants such as electronics,semiconductor and aerospace industry.
Key words:    automobile general assembly line    material handling    best departure time   
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