Open AccessUsing noisy RFID for accurately monitoring the assembly line of panel fabrication
Author(s) -
Yurong Wen,
D. Ogunyemi,
Ahmed Bouferguène,
Mohammed Sadiq Altaf,
Ahmed Bouferguène,
Mohamed AlHussein
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
modular and offsite construction (moc) summit proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-5438
DOI - 10.29173/mocs65
Subject(s) - bottleneck , timestamp , workstation , automotive industry , computer science , assembly line , line (geometry) , production line , reading (process) , downstream (manufacturing) , production (economics) , backup , real time computing , embedded system , operating system , automotive engineering , engineering , operations management , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , law , political science , economics , macroeconomics , aerospace engineering
Over the past few years, the interest towards off-site construction as part of project delivery for residential and commercial buildings has increased dramatically. In this regard, buildings are decomposed into panels that are manufactured using assembly lines smilar to what was developped to the automotive industry. However, because these serial production systems do not have buffers that could store intermediate products when a bottleneck occurs downstream, it often happens that these products are required to wait at the current workstation before production can resume. In this contribution, we develop algorithms allowing the waiting times to be extracted from timestamps that are collected from an RFID system reading the tags on panels as they enter each workstation.