The configuration of workforce and equipment in assembly lines:
Résumé
This chapter evaluates different types of task assignment strategies in a multimanned mixed-model assembly line with walking workers: fixed, model-dependent, and dynamic. Fixed task assignment means that the tasks’ positions and order remain the same for any sequence of product models. In the model-dependent policy, the task assignment changes from one product to another, but for a given product model remains the same. In dynamic task assignment, resources can be reassigned every takt to adjust to any possible orders of products.