Heavy Assembly Line Logistics System Based on RFID Applications
Based on the production logistics in one heavy industry enterprise, this paper describes the logistics operation mode of the assembly process, analyses and designs the operation mode. By taking the advantage of RFID technology in the secondary sorting pro
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Heavy Assembly Line Logistics System Based on RFID Applications Jie Feng, Hai-ping Zhu, Fei He, and Yong-yi Wu
Abstract Based on the production logistics in one heavy industry enterprise, this paper describes the logistics operation mode of the assembly process, analyses and designs the operation mode. By taking the advantage of RFID technology in the secondary sorting process of materials, the automatic sorting method is proposed, which improves the sorting speed and accuracy. Keywords Assembly line • Heavy industry • Intra logistics • Mode of operation • RFID
Introduction Heavy manufacturing industry is a complex manufacturing industry which has its own characteristics as follows: discrete manufacturing; Multi-species and small quantities production; numerous material suppliers; frequent production change; lots of uncertainties affecting the production; high quality requirements and so on (Liling Jiang 2008). These characteristics of heavy industry make the intra logistics
J. Feng (*) • Y.-y. Wu Department of Industrial Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China e-mail: [email protected] H.-p. Zhu State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China HUST-SANY Joint Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Key, Changsha, Hunan 410079, China F. He State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China R. Dou (ed.), Proceedings of 2012 3rd International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation(IEMI2012), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33012-4_1, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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quite complicate. With the advancement of technology and development of economic, the completion between different industries becomes more and more fierce. In order to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, the intra logistics becomes a problem that can’t be ignored (Chen Chenghe 2007). This paper describes the logistics of a company truck production line. In order to meet the rapid growth of market demand, the heavy enterprise expands its production capacity, builds new logistics system in the production factory, and introduces automatic logistics equipment (Cochran and Kaylani 2008; Cochran and Kim 1998a, b). Combining with the advancing management method, the logistics efficiency and accuracy are greatly improved. By using proper logistics operation mode, the objectives of waving off the shelf, online sorting, single-station distribution and real time sending are achieved.
Intra Logistics Mode of Operation There are two main mode of intra logistics operation, which are Push-type system and Pull-type system. The push-type system can be described as a top-down planning system because all production quantity decisions are derived from forecasted demand in the master production schedule. The system produces as many parts as previously forecasted. The parts are released to the next station as quickly as possible to avoid starvation at the downstream stations
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