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Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
The traditional approach to mass production is to implement a product-
oriented production process. The work to be performed is divided among
workstations along a paced line in such a way that the operator in ea
ch station repeats the same set of work elements or tasks on each unit
of the product. A modified version of the paced assembly line is emer
ging: The line is paced, but the time that a unit spends at the workst
ations varies. The line movement is controlled by computer, which is p
rogrammed to move the line only after all the stations have finished t
he work elements assigned to them. The conceptual outline of this appr
oach is presented and discussed in this paper.