Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Product
No
Acceptable
Yes
Workstations Manufacturing Time
Workstations Product Volume
Optimisation Line Balance
Manufacturing System
No
Acceptable
Yes
Production
occupied and this leads to inefficiencies. The cycle time reflects the throughput
rate or how many will be made per hour or per day, as for example in a bakery or
in a car plant. If the production requirement is very high then the cycle time can be
significantly less than the smallest task time. This leads to problems which are
overcome by parallel workstations performing the same task. This helps to reduce