Improve assembly line balancing by changing cycle time

Chao, Yongsheng; Sun, Wenlei

doi:10.1109/icma.2016.7558542

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“…Researchers developed metrics to be able to evaluate the efficiency of a line balancing approach. Metrics such as balance delay and smoothness index (Chao & Sun, 2016) are used. Mainly the evaluation intended to measure the solution difficulty (Driscoll & Thilakawardana, 2001), namely measures such as order strength (Driscoll & Thilakawardana, 2001), flexibility ratio (Bukchin et al, 2002), west ratio (Bukchin et al, 2002), and time interval (Baykasoğlu & Özbakır, 2015) are used.…”

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Assembly line design using a hybrid approach of lean manufacturing and balancing models

Qattawi

Madathil

2019

Production & Manufacturing Research

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This manuscript presents a method to design automotive production assembly lines that integrate lean manufacturing approaches and line balancing algorithms. In this work, we develop a clustering algorithm and task mutuality index for the assembly tasks to redesign and rebalance an assembly production line with a fixed layout and machinery. Moreover, we consider the product demand variability and the introduction of new product models. This paper describes the current and the future states of an automotive engines assembly production line using quantitative performance parameters and assembly tasks content flow charting, along with the analysis and results obtained from the proposed approach. The results show a reduction in required modeling and optimization efforts and a reduction in the required time to generate a feasible redesign of an assembly line while reaching the required takt time based on the demand forecast.

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