Title: Line-seru conversion of seed packaging workshop: a case study of company A in China

Authors: Yiran Xiang; Zhe Zhang; Xue Gong; Yong Yin

Addresses: School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China ' School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China ' School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China ' Graduate School of Business, Doshisha University, Karasuma-Imadegawa, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8580, Japan

Abstract: Seru is a new type of production system that is more efficient, flexible and cost-effective than assembly line, and can quickly respond to fluctuating markets and customer demand. This paper uses the seed packaging workshop of company A in China as a case study and proposes to build a line-seru conversion model with the goal of an optimal balance rate, implement seru production in the seed packaging industry from the perspective of production practice, and study line-seru conversion. The current production situation of the seed packaging workshop of company A is analysed, and it is found that there are many problems in the existing assembly line. Under this production dilemma, the seru production feasibility study is carried out on the seed packaging workshop, and the line-seru conversion is carried out to obtain the final converted seru simplified diagram of the production mode. After the line-seru conversion, it was concluded that the efficiency of the packaging production was increased by 35.86%, 48.03%, 37.42% and 35.87% respectively and the number of workers has been reduced by 5, 6, 4, and 3 respectively. [Submitted 13 September 2021; Accepted 28 July 2022]

Keywords: seru production; assembly line; line-seru conversion; optimal balance rate; seed packaging workshop.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMR.2023.132843

International Journal of Manufacturing Research, 2023 Vol.18 No.3, pp.311 - 340

Received: 13 Sep 2021
Accepted: 28 Jul 2022
Published online: 11 Aug 2023 *

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