Product family design utilizes platform-based modularity to enable product variety and
efficient mass-production. While product platform issues have attracted much attention from …

ABSTRACT A newly emerging mass-individualisation concept has attracted increasing
attention in recent years. However, this concept increases the complexity of manufacturing …

In the automobile manufacturing process, the complexity of the production environment and
the different objectives of the upstream and downstream shops necessitate the …

Customers in the manufacturing sector, especially in the automotive industry, have a high
demand for individualized products at price levels comparable to traditional mass …

The initial production sequences of a multi-stage automotive flow shop (MSAFS) have a
chance to be disturbed by emergency orders from the market or warehouses. This kind of …

In the automotive industry, some vehicles, failed vehicles, cannot be produced according to
the planned schedule due to some reasons such as material shortage, paint failure, etc …

Physical resequencing and virtual resequencing are two general forms of sequence
adjustment in the context of mixed-model assembly lines. Selectivity banks can be used to …

In mixed-model automobile assembly lines, paint defective vehicles are the main reason for
unintentional sequence alteration that stirs up the production sequence so that …

Various studies have discussed the coordination of product and supply chain design
decisions for global supply chain management. However, the impact of currency exchange …

The global competitive environment leads companies to consider how to produce high-
quality products at a lower cost. Mixed-model assembly lines are often designed such that …