Assembly Line Design
Gajanan Ganage : 104
Ashish Kadam : 106
Asad Patrick : 111
Manas Rane : 112
What is an assembly line?
Manufacturing process in which
parts are added as the semi-finished
assembly moves from workstation to
workstation where the parts are added
in sequence until the final assembly
is produced.
By mechanically moving the parts to
the assembly work and moving the
semi-finished assembly from work
station to work station, a finished
product can be assembled faster and
with less labor than by having
workers carry parts to a stationary
piece for assembly.
Why assembly line?
3
Market Demand/Month = 1000
2
Activities = 6
Available hrs = 200
Desired cycle time = 12 min
Cycle time = 16 min
Main Objective: To Reduce Cycle time
Types of assembly lines?
Mainly based on the production strategy and product variants
Single model:
No variants
Work at all stations remains same
Outcome product of the line is the same
Multi model:
Products that have different variants.
No resource constraints for assembling
May have different operation times for different variants.
Multi-model:
Product variants are produced in batches.
Require setup for change of tools or another equipment.
Objectives:
Minimize the work imbalance.
Minimize the number of workstations.
Minimize the idle time.
How to achieve?
Grouping of tasks into workstations.
The feasible range of cycle times.
Line balancing methods
Choice of the best design.
System diagram:
INPUTS
OUTPUTS
- Demand
- Task time
- Precedence among
tasks
- Efficiency factors
Assembly Line
- Task to station
assignments
- The number of
stations/workers
Influencing factors:
Mass Production
Mass Customization
Goal
Delivering Goods and services at prices
low enough that nearly everybody can
afford it.
Delivering Affordable Goods and
services with enough variety and
customization that nearly every one
finds what they want
Economics
Economics of Scale
Economics of Scope
Customer
Involvemen
t
Buy
Choose
Production
System
Dedicated Manufacturing System
Reconfigurable Manufacturing System
Product
Standardized Product built to
inventory/stock
Standardized modules assembled on
customer Needs
Influencing factors:
Key Features
Mass Production
Mass Customization
Stable Demand
Large Homogenous Markets
Low Cost
Consistent Quality
Standardized goods and services
Long Product Development Cycle
Long Product Life Cycle
Fragmented Demand
Heterogeneous Niches
Low Cost
High Quality
Customized Goods and services
Short Product Development Cycle
Short Product Life Cycle
Influencing factors:
Influencing Factorsics
Auto
Defence
Fast Food
Mass Production
Mass Customization
Data collection methods:
- Precedence diagram
- Market Demand Analysis
- Individual task time
Rank Positional weights Method
The positional weights on a work element is its own processing time plus the
processing times of all the following work elements
At each work station a list of eligible jobs is prepared for replacement
In RPW, the work element with the highest positional weight is selected and
assigned to the current work station
Mathematical Modeling:
3
5
1
No of work elements=12
12
Precedence Diagram
10
11
Tmax Cycle Time Ti
7 Cycle Time (5+3+4.7)
50
Let the Desired Cycle time be 10 units
Assigning Positional Weights
33
28
15
1
50
33
30
24
13
9
4
10
15
7
12
4
11
11
Duration
j
Element Number
i
Positional Weightage
Grouping Activities based on RPW
33
28
15
13
1
6
24
50
1,
4
8
2,
5
30
3,
6
12
4
11
10
33
15
11
10,7,
9
8,11
7
12
10
Pictorial View of Final Assembly line
Performance Measures
Line Efficiency:
= STi/(K*CT)*100%
= (50/6*10)*100= 83.3%
Balance Delay= (1 - LE)*100=16.6%
Smoothness Index= ( STmax- STi)
= (4+1+1+16+4)= 5.09
Output/day = 420 min/10 min = 42 units
If Cycle time = 8 , # Workstations = 8 but output = 52 & Efficiency = 78.12%
If Cycle time = 15, # Workstations = 4 but output = 28 & Efficiency = 83.33%
Conclusion
Increasing Cycle time, Decreases # Workstations but decreases output
Decreasing Cycle time, Increases # Workstations but Increases output
Pizza operations
D
Task
Description
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Roll dough
Add pizza sauce
Sprinkle cheese
Add sausage
Add pepperoni
Add mushrooms
Shrinkwrap pizza
Add Label
25 sec
A
60 sec
B
30 sec
C
35 sec
E
35 sec
G
15 sec
F
22 sec
Runs 8 hours per day = 28800 seconds
Want to produce 300 pizzas per day
H
23 sec
Task
time
(sec)
60
30
35
25
35
22
15
23
245
Preceding
task
A
B
C
C
C
D,E,F
G
Pizza operations
Cycle time = 28800 sec per day/ 300 pizzas per day = 96 seconds
Theoretical minimum no of work stations
N= sum of task time/cycle time = 245 seconds/96 seconds per station
= 2.55 stations = 3 stations
Efficiency = sum of task times/(# workstations*Cycle time)
= 245 seconds/ (3stations* 96 seconds/statins) = 85.1%
Pizza operations
station
1
Eligible
task
Assigned
Task
Task
Time
A
B
C
D, E, F
D, F
F
G
H
A
B
C
E
D
F
G
H
60
30
35
35
25
22
15
23
Cumulative
Idle time
Time
60
90
35
70
95
22
37
60
36
6
61
26
1
74
59
36
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