Subject: Industrial Engineering And Management

Topic: Facility Design

Difficulty: Medium

Objectives of line balancing:

(i) To minimize the number of workstations.

(ii) To minimize the cycle time.

(iii) To maximize the workload smoothness.

(iv) To maximize the work relatedness.

All factories that have a line such as traditional assembly line and new assembly line is used to improve a few parameter of line control in other hand manager like has a productivity and high yield in their factory and for this goal get help from previous technique to locate a machine, employer, assign employer to machine to select best choose for control and work by machine.

In a few company one employer control 2 or more than 2 machines and this result is output of line balancing. In another word the company used line balancing for grow up the rate of production and decrease man power, idle time and buffer near machine, also used line balancing for produced more than 2 products.

Assembly lines are the most important components of mass production systems. The improved labor productivity is their essential significance for manufacturers who have to produce high volume products in a fast and cost effective manner. An assembly line consists of several successive workstations in which a group of assembly operations (tasks) are performed in a limited duration (cycle time).

The productivity level of an assembly line generally depends on balancing performance. Assembly line balancing (ALB) is the problem of assigning tasks to successive workstations by satisfying some constraints and optimizing a performance measure. This performance measure is usually the minimization of the number of workstations utilized over the assembly line