The advances in Industry 4.0 provide both challenges and opportunities for digital
manufacturing and assembly systems. This paper first addresses the state-of-the-art …

Purpose–Flexible automated assembly is an emerging need in several industries. The
purpose of this paper is to address the introduction of an innovative concept in flexible …

Automation can be a valid way to reduce production costs. Considering medium/low
volumes and a wide set of different models, a mixed model assembly work cell is a proper …

The purpose of this paper is to carry out queuing analysis to examine multi-stage production
line performance to facilitate more realistic resource planning. It is one of a few such studies …

The formation of waiting lines is a common phenomenon that occurs whenever the current
demand for a service exceed the current capacity to provide that service. Decisions …

Purpose–This paper aims to provide a framework for the choice, design, set-up and
management of a fully flexible assembly system (F-FAS). Many industrial applications for …

In the application of multi-robot system for a pick-and-place task, the appropriate robot arms
and their base positions should be rapidly selected to improve the productivity, reduce the …

The purpose of this work is examining the multi-product multi-stage in a battery production
line. To improve the performances of an assembly production line by determine the …

Application of automation to assembly processes is vitally important to meet the
requirements of manufacturing and production. Feeders form a critical part of automated …

In modern automated assembly lines, part feeders play an important role to separate and
sort parts. Agility and flexibility are required to achieve a good yield for different types of …