Labor Assignments

In either job or Batch production

systems, the problem is to determine
the number of workers needed in
each station to achieve the required
output from a given production line
The following example illustrates
this problem

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1. Consider the production as shown in fig.5.12,

requiring 20 stations to complete the assembly
2. For convenience the stations are numbered form
left to right in the direction of material flow.
3. Subassemblies 1 & 2 are combined in Station 5,
which is also common input station for the three
parallel branches 6-9, 7-10, & 8-11
4. These branches are required in this example bcz
of limitations on space, equipment & labor
available to work at the stations
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5. The output form three branches, i.e, from

station 9, 10 & 11- goes into common stage,
from which parts for station 12 & 13 are drawn
6. In station 17, two subassemblies are joined in
the ratio 2:5.
7. Finally station 18 supplies both station 19 & 20,
where the final processing is accomplished
8. Fig.5.12 also show the input / output
requirements per worker at each station; for
example, in station 18 a worker will require 16
units of input & will produce 12 good units
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9. Table 5.11 presents the tabular approach.

10. the information contained in columns
1,2,3,4,5 & 10 is known for the given
product
11. By way of illustration consider station 17,
production per worker at this location is 9
units, but the next work station, station
18, requires 16 units per worker as its
input. The maximum number of workers
that can be assigned to station 17 is 8
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12.In this example the required output

is 16 units from station 20 & 18
units from unit from station 19
13. After accounting for present
inventories by completing column 2,
the procedure is to work backword
from the last work area (station 20),
filling in all the columns for each
station .
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