Group Members Sr. No. | Member Name | PRN | 1 | Bhushan Daga | 15020841130 | 2 | Kanika Gulati | 15020841176 | 3 | Parantak Soni | 15020841147 | 4 | Priyank Singhvi | 15020841150 | 5 | Ridhi Choudhary | 15020841154 | 6 | Snehil Bhadkamkar | 15020841162 |
Introduction
Production capacity required for production lines is determined by Product Design and the market demand. Once the production capacity is determined information like number of workers, attended and unattended machines is required. Line balancing at its core tries to equally divide work to be done among workstations. The objective is to minimize No. of workers or workstations required on a production line to provide the required amount of capacity.
Analysis Methods
Various methods like Linear Programming, Dynamic Programming and other mathematical models possible but not useful for solving large problems.Hence, General Rule of thumbs used, which are good solutions but not ideal solutions.
These Heuristics are: * Incremental Utilization heuristic * Longest-Task-Time heuristic
Incremental Utilization Heuristic
A heuristic method is a procedure that can find a good feasible solution for a given class of problems, but which is not necessarily an optimal solution * It adds tasks to a workstation in a precedence task order. * To each task added to the station, operatorsare added when necessary, and the station utilization is calculated by equation. * Tasks are added at the used station until its utilization is 100%, or until a reduction occurs, considering the new task and another operator when necessary. * Then, a new station is considered, and the procedure is repeated on the next workstation for the remaining tasks. TASK | TASKS THAT IMMEDIATELY PRECEDE | TIME TO PERFORM TASK (MINUTES) | TASK | TASKS THAT IMMEDIATELY PRECEDE | TIME TO
