Abstract—This paper addresses the interaction effect between
the workload and the information accuracy in work-sharing
environment on the performance of a serial production line. The
work-sharing is organized by Dynamic Line Balancing (DLB)
policy. Under this policy, the workers can help each other with
some tasks, called shared tasks. We investigated two levels of
information accuracy that support the decision of working on or
passing the shared tasks to the next buffer. We employed
different configurations of workload under these two levels of
information accuracy. A measure of workload is proposed to
ease the comparison. The results of simulation showed a
remarkable influence of workload on the performance and
found its patterns as work-in-process (WIP) level changes.
These patterns are clearly affected by changing the information
accuracy level.
Index Terms—Work-sharing, information accuracy, dynamic
line balancing, fixed workload.
The authors are with the Industrial Engineering and Management
Department, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Oh-okayama,
Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 Japan (e-mail: {kasmo.s.aa, enkawa.t.aa,
Suzuki.s.ag}@m.titech.ac.jp).
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Cite:Salah Kasmo, Takao Enkawa, and Sadami Suzuki, "The Work-Sharing in a Serial Production Line with Consideration of the Balance of Fixed Workload and the Accuracy of Information," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 336-340, 2014.
