Workers in Kaesung Industrial Complex in North Korea busy at the production line.
The field of operations research traditionally focuses on using mathematical tools to solve complex problems in industry, such as scheduling a production line.
To avoid detection by the authorities, the manager of a furniture factory in Dalingshan said new Vietnamese workers were driven straight into the factory complex to a separate building with its own production line and dormitory.
The production line design/configuration is a very hard and complex problem to be solved.
After admitting that a glut of robots can actually slow production and that Tesla needs more humans on the production line, he said: "We had this crazy, complex network of conveyor belts and it was not working.
More complex production processes and more frequent introduction of new products have required companies to add many management levels to keep tabs on line workers.
The quality inspection of large or complex workpieces manufactured on machine tools often takes place beside the production line.
As a general rule, advanced manufacturing goes beyond the production line definition of manufacturing to capture the more complex trends such as participation in global value chains and technological innovation.
Recent studies support the view that, rather than a simple 'step-by-step' production line, the GE machine is governed by multiple, complex and extensively coupled networks (Maniatis and Reed, 2002; Moore, 2005; Orphanides and Reinberg, 2002).
Among these random events that disturb the production process are operator unavailability, technical failures in the production line, loss of motivation, lack of training, non-qualified operators, complex tasks, etc.
