?Self-Organizing Chasing-Overtaking Production Lines to Maximize Worker Capabilities

摘要

The bucket brigade production line (BBPL) is a self-organizing and self-balancing line with high flexibility and productivity. The evolutionary path of BBPL from the perspective of work sharing and that of the new self-organized chasing-overtaking production line (COPL) from the perspective of undertaking all production tasks were determined. Because the production capacity of the BBPL is affected by the differences in the worker efficiency, the production capacity can only be maximized when the worker efficiency is sorted from high to low. Similar to the BBPL,COPL also needs to consider the worker sequence. Our simulation and statistical analysis verified that the worker sequence does not affect on the production capacity of a COPL. In COPL, the ability of every employee can be fully utilized.