scholarly journals Line Balancing Techniques for Efficiency Improvement in Construction Steel Company

2020 ◽  

The focus of this paper is on the improvement of the assembly line by means of assembly line balancing approaches. The assembly line balancing is about evenly distribution of the work load among the workstations without violating the precedence and cycle time specifications. The twoassembly line balancing tactics specifically Largest candidate rule method (LCR) and Kilbridge and Westercolumn method (KWC) are utilized to strengthen the efficiency of assembly line by minimizing the number of workstations and thereby reducing the balance delay of the assembly line.Line balancing is an effective method to enhance the throughput of assembly line by reducing non-value-added activities. The technique followed includes calculation of cycle time of the process, identifying the non –value-added activities, calculating overall work load on station and distribution of work load on each station by the method of line balancing. This paper broadens the productivity and effectivity of an Excavator Assembly line in ABC organization. Line balancing is used to measure the efficiency of the line and later used to measure the effectiveness of the proposed solution. Multiple approaches have been proposed based on the time study carried out. Evaluation of the outcomes of the proposed assembly line suggests that the line efficiency of the excavator’s assembly line is improved from 71.27% to 77.44%


2015 ◽  
Vol 778 ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
Ketsada Khamwiset ◽  
Suksan Prombanpong

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an efficiency improvement of assembly line by through line balancing method. By reducing lost time in assembly line caused working time each station does not equal. There was a wait time between work stations. As a result, the effectiveness and efficiency of the assembly line low. Will be affected the delivery of product to customers is not enough or back order. In addition, calculation of line balancing is demonstrated. One of the actual manual assembly lines will be through as a case study. It is found that after improvement line balance efficiency is increased from 63.62 to 89.52 percent with the efficiency improvement of 25.9 percent.


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