LINE BALANCING

Presented by Neeraj Arora 7311747

IMPORTANT TERMINOLOGIES
TASK TASK PRECEDENCE TASK TIME CYCLE TIME PRODUCTIVE TIME PER HOUR WORK STATION WORK CENTRE THEORETICAL MINIMUM NUMBER OF WORK STATION ACTUAL NUMBER OF WORK STATION

LINE BALANCING
Line balancing is arranging a production line so that there is an even flow of production from one work station to the next.

LINE BALANCING PROCEDURE

Determine what tasks must be performed to complete one unit of a finished product and the sequence in which the task must be performed. Estimate the task time. Determine the cycle time. Assign each task to a worker and balance the assembly line.

LINE BALANCING METHODS

Heuristic method Linear programming Dynamic programming Computerized line-balancing.

HEURISTIC METHOD
It is a thumb rule method which gives a satisfactory rather than optimal solution to the problem. Heuristic method are acceptable when optimizing solutions are not feasible or are too costly to obtain.

TYPES OF HEURISTIC METHOD

Incremental utilization heuristic. Longest task-time heuristic.

INCREMENTAL UTILIZATION HEURISTIC

The incremental utilization heuristic assigns tasks to a workstation in the order of task precedence one at a time until the utilization of the workstation is 100 percent or as near to 100 percent as possible and then this procedure is repeated at the next workstation.

LONGEST-TASK HEURISTIC
It adds task to a workstation one at a time in the order of task precedence. If a choice must be made between two or more tasks, the one with longest task is added.