Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly networks |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA;2. Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA;1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue, 1591634311 Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Industrial Management, Management and Accounting Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Tehran, Iran;1. Dept. of Computer Systems Architecture and Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;2. Intelligent Systems Group, Dept. of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Spain;3. Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain;1. China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute, Shenzhen 518031, China;2. School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;1. Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan;2. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan;3. Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University College of Public Health, Taipei 100, Taiwan;4. Assisted Reproductive Technology Center, An-An Women and Children Clinic, Tainan 704, Taiwan;5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, Tainan 701, Taiwan;6. Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) and NTU Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | In a network of subassembly lines, balance becomes more difficult to achieve as it requires that all subassembly lines be synchronized to produce at the same rate. We show how to adapt the “bucket brigade” protocol of work-sharing so that balance emerges spontaneously. |
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