Some Generalizations of Bucket Brigade Assembly Lines
A fascinating feature of bucket brigade assembly lines is that work load on workers is balanced spontaneously as workers follow some simple rules in the assembly process. This self-organizing property significantly reduces the management effort on an assembly line. We generalize this idea in several...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2005
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6910 |