Towards a learning curve for electric motors production under organizational learning via shop floor data
IFAC-PapersOnLine • 2016
Publication Information
Authors
El-Awady Attia, Ashraf Megahed, Philippe Duquenne,
Keywords
Learning curve; Continuous improvement; manufacturing of electric motors; non linear regression; analytical hierarchy process (AHP)
Journal
IFAC-PapersOnLine
Publisher
ELSEVIER
Volume
49
Issue
12
Pages
1086–1091
publication.type
International
Paper Link
Open Link
Supplementary Materials
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Abstract
Due to the fierce market competition, organizations should respond quickly to customers’ needs by reducing lead times, or/and lowering operating costs. These objectives can be reached by effectively assessing the workforce capacities. Manufacturing progress function or organizational learning is considered as one of the most important factors that affect workforce capacity. The current paper introduces an examination research that uses factory data to introduce the most appropriate organizational learning model for the manufacture of electric motors. The data used was collected for a period of 42 months for 110 manufacturing processes and 10 different styles of electric motors. By using regression analysis the significant parameters were obtained for 10 learning models. And in order to select the most reliable one, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used after defining the selection criteria. Among most of monovariable learning models listed in literature the model of Wright (1936) is found to be the best one to fit the data, and then comes the model of Knecht (1974). The failure of the other models in fitting the data was also shown.
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