Abstract
The layout structure of automotive body shop is complex in which many flow lines and assembly operations are connected together. Although simulation is widely used for estimating the performance measure of complex system, such as production rate, it is time consuming job when simulation is applied to solve the optimization problems. In this paper, we introduce how to build a meta-model for production rate and how to apply the model to solve the buffer allocation problem in an automotive body shop considering mixed-model production. In the developing processes of second order polynomial meta-model, the response surface method is used for reducing the number of simulation runs and enhancing the adequacy of meta-model.
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