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TITLE	Kinetic Part-Feeding Models for Assembly Lines in Automotive Industries
AUTHORS	Michael Herty, Lena Michailidis, Marcus Ziegler
ABSTRACT	This paper deals with the modeling of production processes in automotive industries by models based on partial differential equations.The basic idea consists on the derivation of kinetic equations to model production flow on an assembly line. Numerical results based on data of an assembly plant are presented. The work implements a recent discussion [34, 38] for general flow on unstructured networks.
KEYWORDS	network dynamics, kinetic theory, asymptotic analysis
DOI	10.1142/S0218202515500104
PUBLICATION	Mathematical Models and Methds in Applied Sciences (M3AS) Vol. 25, No. 02, pp. 283-308 (2015)