Kinetic part-feeding models for assembly lines in automotive industries

Abstract

This paper deals with the modeling of production processes in automotive industries by models based on partial differential equations. The basic idea consists on the derivation of kinetic equations to model production flow on an assembly line. Numerical results based on data of an assembly plant are presented. The work implements a recent discussion for general flow on unstructured networks.

Modeling steel rolling processes by fluid-like differential equations

“…Also, those models are used to estimate the effect of system parameters on performance. An example of kinetic theory applied to high-volume automotive production lines has been studied in [23]. Before previous mathematical work is reviewed, we proceed by giving an overview of the rolling process and typical process models in Sections 1.1 and 1.2.…”