A smart algorithm for personalizing the workstation in the assembly process

Turk, Maja (author), Pipan, Miha (author), Šimic, Marko (author), Herakovič, Niko (author)

Due to increasing competition in the global market and to meet the need for rapid changes in product variability, it is necessary to introduce self-configurable and smart solutions within the entire process chain, including manual assembly to ensure the more efficient and ergonomic performance of the manual assembly process. This paper presents a smart assembly system including newly developed smart manual assembly workstation controlled by a smart algorithm. The smart assembly workstation is self-configurable according to the anthropometry of the individual worker, the complexity of the assembly process, the product characteristics, and the product structure. The results obtained by a case study show that is possible to organize manual assembly process with rapid adaptation of the smart assembly system to new products and workers characteristics, to achieve ergonomic working conditions through Digital Human Modelling (DHM), to minimize assembly time, and to prevent error during the assembly process. The proposed system supports the manual assembly process redesign to ensure a better working environment and aims to have an important value for applying the smart algorithms to manual assembly workstations in human-centered manufacturing systems.

• Language: English
• Keywords: manual assembly process, smart algorithm, smart manual assembly system, self-configurable workstation, workplace evaluation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 10, iss. 23, art. 8624
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134845
• UDC: 004.021:005.951(045)
• ISSN on article: 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app10238624
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40663299
• Publication date in RUL: 04.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Applied sciences
• Shortened title: Appl. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-3417
• COBISS.SI-ID: 522979353

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 02.12.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: ročna montaža, pametni algoritmi, pametni sistemi ročne montaže, samokonfiguracijsko delovno mesto, vrednotenje delovnega mesta