LINE BALANCING AND AUTOMATION
UNIVERSITY OF JOS
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.PAPER PRESENTATION ON BUS 323
TOPIC: LINE BALANCING AND AUTOMATION.
PRESENTED TO MRS. RONKE.There is a need for every firm or industry to balance their production line or assembly line so that there is an even flow of production units form one work station to the next. In order to reduce cost of production it is necessary to avoid idleness of machines and with it, the labour, well-balanced lines improve labour work. The introduction of automation in industries or production firm brought so much more improvement in the accuracy, precision and quality in production. This paper presentation explains the question of line balancing and automation.
LINE BALANCING
Line balancing is assigning tasks among workers at each product line so that performance times are made as equal as possible.
Line-balancing strategy is to make production lines flexible enough to absorb external and internal irregularities, in other words the question of how cost of idleness can be reduce is the focus point. If every work station in a product layout equal amount of task time, no time will be idled. Therefore line balancing is a job equalizing task time among work stations.
Line balancing involves assigning tasks to workstations. Line balancing is often closely associated with the manufacturing sector. It can also be applied to any process base organization that delivers output on a frequent basis. Example of this is a production support environment, where a help desk receive request to provide support for production
Involves being processed by teams to ensure that the vendor and client payments are made on time.
OBJECTIVE OF LINE BALANCING.The process of deciding how to assign tasks to workstations is referred to as line balancing.
The goal or the objective of line balancing is to obtain task groupings that represent approximately equal time requirements. This minimizes the idle time along
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.PAPER PRESENTATION ON BUS 323
TOPIC: LINE BALANCING AND AUTOMATION.
PRESENTED TO MRS. RONKE.There is a need for every firm or industry to balance their production line or assembly line so that there is an even flow of production units form one work station to the next. In order to reduce cost of production it is necessary to avoid idleness of machines and with it, the labour, well-balanced lines improve labour work. The introduction of automation in industries or production firm brought so much more improvement in the accuracy, precision and quality in production. This paper presentation explains the question of line balancing and automation.
LINE BALANCING
Line balancing is assigning tasks among workers at each product line so that performance times are made as equal as possible.
Line-balancing strategy is to make production lines flexible enough to absorb external and internal irregularities, in other words the question of how cost of idleness can be reduce is the focus point. If every work station in a product layout equal amount of task time, no time will be idled. Therefore line balancing is a job equalizing task time among work stations.
Line balancing involves assigning tasks to workstations. Line balancing is often closely associated with the manufacturing sector. It can also be applied to any process base organization that delivers output on a frequent basis. Example of this is a production support environment, where a help desk receive request to provide support for production
Involves being processed by teams to ensure that the vendor and client payments are made on time.
OBJECTIVE OF LINE BALANCING.The process of deciding how to assign tasks to workstations is referred to as line balancing.
The goal or the objective of line balancing is to obtain task groupings that represent approximately equal time requirements. This minimizes the idle time along
References: Bartholomew, Doug. "Automation Advance." Industry Week. May 15, 2000. Bradbury, Danny. "Through the Looking Glass." Computing. April 3, 1997. Jasany, Leslie C. "Knowledge (and Power) to the People." Automation. July 1990. Moore, Walt. "Working Smarter with Automation." Construction Equipment. April 1999. Partch, Ken. "The Coming Impact of Information Technology." Supermarket Business. February 1997. Pedone, Rose-Robin. "Sales Automation—Changing the Way Business Is Done." LI Business News. September 22, 1997. Pascarella, Perry. "Unlearn the 'Truths ' about Automation." Industry Week. May 26, 1986. Quarterman Lee. How to Balance a Manufacturing Work Cell. Institute of Industrial Engineers. IE Solutions Conference. Cleveland Ohio. May 21-23, 2000.