Seru production is regarded as a new production mode and derived from the production site
of Japanese electronics industry. This production mode is proposed to overcome the low …

Drawing upon efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness, this study attempts to explore the
impact of lot streaming and worker assignment strategies in the workforce scheduling …

In recent years, the interest in seru production system (SPS) has increased to enhance the
flexibility of production systems. Because the worker resource in an SPS is critical for …

This study explores the problem of workforce scheduling in the seru production environment
where operations are performed within independent serus, so-called assembly cells …

As an innovation of production mode, seru production was successfully implemented in
Asian electronic industry such as Canon and Sony. Motivated by the benefits from seru …

Lot splitting is one of the effective technologies of time-based strategy and has been widely
studied in a variety of production environments. Nevertheless, the literature on its application …

Advanced production environments emerged as the good solution to address the modern
market challenges asking for a wide product mix and low time to market. Within cellular …

Seru production system is an innovative assembly system and combines the flexibility of job
shop production and high efficiency of assembly lines. This production system easily adapts …

Purpose Line–cell conversion and rotation of operators between cells are common in lean
production systems. Thus, the purpose of this study is to provide an integrated look at these …

Seru production system (SPS) offers the flexibility of job shop production environments with
the efficiency of traditional assembly lines. The SPSs are particularly attractive to industries …