Assembly line balancing: Which model to use when?

Boysen, Nils; Fliedner, Malte; Schöll, Armin

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2007.02.026

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“…Some are challenging to present and implement for instructional purposes. Reviews of line balancing methodologies are provided in Erel and Sarin (1998), Driscoll and Thilakawardana (2001), Scholl and Becker (2006), and Boysen et al (2007Boysen et al ( , 2008. Becker and Scholl (2006) is a frequently cited reference for this topic.…”

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Interactive Excel-Based Procedure for Line Balancing

Wellington

Lewis²

2018

INFORMS Transactions on Education

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Abstract. The assignment of tasks to workstations that results in the assembly of an item or provision of a service is a common topic of discussion in operations management (OM) courses. In this paper, we present an interactive Excel spreadsheet assisted procedure for assigning the required tasks. The procedure actively engages the student in the process and serves as a tool for learning how to effectively and efficiently assign the tasks to a series (line) of connected workstations. The Excel implementation provides more flexibility in selecting tasks than textbook or other Excel based methods that rely on certain priority rules, and is considerably easier to use than math programming models. The procedure and its spreadsheet implementation are illustrated and discussed, with an example.

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Section: Relevant Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive Excel-Based Procedure for Line Balancing

Wellington

Lewis²

2018

INFORMS Transactions on Education

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“…To explain briefly (Rekiek et al 2002, Rekiek and Delchambre 2006, Boysen et al 2008, Hamzadayi and Yildiz 2012  Single model assembly lines are used to assemble a single homogenous product in large quantities;…”

Section: International Journal Of Production Researchmentioning

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Simultaneous balancing and sequencing of mixed-model parallel two-sided assembly lines

Küçükkoç

Zhang

2014

International Journal of Production Research

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Growing interests from customers in customised products and increasing competitions among peers necessitate companies to configure their manufacturing systems more effectively than ever before. We propose a new assembly line system configuration for companies that need intelligent solutions to satisfy customised demands on time with existing resources. A mixed-model parallel two-sided assembly line system is introduced based on the parallel two-sided assembly line system previously proposed by Ozcan et al. (Balancing parallel two-sided assembly lines, International Journal of Production Research, 48 (16), 4767-4784, 2010). The mixed-model parallel two-sided assembly line balancing problem is illustrated with examples from the perspective of simultaneous balancing and sequencing. An agent based ant colony optimisation algorithm is proposed to solve the problem. This algorithm is the first attempt in the literature to solve an assembly line balancing problem with an agent based ant colony optimisation approach. The algorithm is illustrated with an example and its operational procedures and principles explained and discussed.Keywords: mixed-model parallel two-sided assembly lines; assembly line balancing; agent based ant colony optimisation; meta-heuristics; artificial intelligence

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“…Here, to conduct the balancing an assembly line, therefore, it must constructs a diagram of the tasks involved in assembling the product, their times characteristic, precedence relations as well as a desired demand and a time cycle. This is due to line balancing as a flow-oriented production system need to use of available cycle time as efficiently as possible and allocated the resources in effectively [12], [13], in which as follows: 1) To optimize the operations in production line for a given number of workstations towards the operators and machines are therefore requires the strategy on how to optimize the line balancing through reducing the cycle time [4]. Particularly, by reducing the cycle (takt) time through equalizing the loads on the workstations [15] where each of stations on the line are ideally should receive an equal amount of work in time units.…”

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Real of Simply Assembly Line Balancing using Fact-Model

Sihombing¹,

Akbar²,

Perumal³

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IJCEE

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Abstract-This study is to examine the productivity of the designated production line related to the cycle time, takt time, non-value added activities, and product quantities in which the processing time and the number of operators are having the correlation with assembly line balancing. By using a developed simulation tool, called as Fact-Model; which having facility menus such as the graph of critical path network, working time, and production table, enable users to analyze the line assembly related to idle time and bottleneck as well as to address the unbalancing causes. Fact-Model is also facilitate users to apply their owned pictures (which is taken related to process) in order to depict and map the real characteristic of production flows. Based on the simulation carried out, where the reallocation activities in Main-Board production line are undertaken through the production process and operators reassigned, it shows that productivity is optimum.

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Assembly line balancing: Which model to use when?

Cited by 365 publications

References 139 publications

Interactive Excel-Based Procedure for Line Balancing

Interactive Excel-Based Procedure for Line Balancing

Simultaneous balancing and sequencing of mixed-model parallel two-sided assembly lines

Real of Simply Assembly Line Balancing using Fact-Model

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