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line balancing methods - heuristic approach heuristic mean serving to find ie to find out discover things for oneself heuristic describes a
line balancing methods the various line balancing methods or techniques used areheuristic methodslinear programmingkilbride and waste
balancing efficiencyan efficient line balancing will minimize the amount of idle time the balance efficiency can be calculated aseffb output of
analysis of line balancing problemsthe procedure involves the followings stepsdetermine the number of work stations and time available at each work
line balancing procedure in assembly layoutstep1 determine what tasks must be performed to complete one unit of a finished product and the sequence
line balancingline balancing is arranging a production line so that there is an even flow of production from one work station to the next i e so that
elements of craftit reads the load summary the number of loads carried between pairs of department the costs for per unit load per unit distance for
computerized relative allocation of facilities technique craft the previous difficulty can now be alleviated because of the availability of computer
automated layout design programme or aldephere the closeness relationship between two department is used to build up layout computer selects
computer aided layout planningthis method has 3 steps they are as followpreparation phase specification phase and analysis in the preparation phase
analyzing layouts with computers due to the advent of computers and software faculties presently computers are used to design the facility layout
quantitative layout analysis - correlation chart in this technique we draw a gird with rows presenting alternative solutions plant item can be a
quantitative layout analysis - trial and error methodhere we use simple travel chart and graphical approach to reduce to minimize nonadjacent flows
quantitative layout analysis - load distance analysis methodload distance analysis is useful in comparing alternative layouts to identify the one
quantitative layout analysis - travel charta basic tool that is primarily used to analyze the material handling cost or in certain cases number of
quantitative layout analysisonce a layout is prepared before accepting it should be evaluated quantitatively and compared with other alternative
tools and techniques of layout planning - line balancingline balancing is the phases of assembly line study that nearly equally divides the work to
disadvantages of three dimensional models they require more storage area they are comparatively expensive than templates it is difficult to take them
advantages of three dimensional models layouts made of models are easier to understand by laymenit is easy to explain to the managementmodels can be
three dimensional modelthese are scale models of a facility and more nearer to the real situation as besides length and width they show height of the
tools and techniques of layout planning - templatestemplates are most commonly employed when preparing layouts templates are two dimensional 2d or
tools and techniques of layout planning various techniques are available for planning the layout the most commonly used techniques is the use of two
layout planning and analysisdesigning and installing a layout for the first time and subsequent revision may be looked after by the engineering or
limitations of group technology or cellular manufacturing group technology is a great concept but all good concepts do have their own limitations and
benefits of group technology1reduced flow times compared to the earlier process layout there are very few halts hence flow times are reduced