Factors impacting manual picking on assembly lines: An experiment in the automotive industry

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1789-1798

  Finnsgård, Christian ^a   Wänström, Carl ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

assembly line; automotive industry; materials exposure; picking

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; ASSEMBLY LINE; ASSEMBLY PROCESS; AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLY LINES; FULL FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; MATERIAL EXPOSURES; NEW PRODUCTION; PICKING; SUPPLY PROCESS;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; BINS; EXPERIMENTS; MANAGERS; MATERIALS; PALLETS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84871260230     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2012.712729     Document Type: Article

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