Industrial Management
E. Shadkam; F. Ghavidel
Abstract
The use of assembly lines is one of the important approaches in mass production of industrial products. Imbalance of assembly lines increases cycle time and idle times, resulting in reduced production rates, line efficiency, and increased system costs, which ultimately lead to low productivity. A hybrid ...
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The use of assembly lines is one of the important approaches in mass production of industrial products. Imbalance of assembly lines increases cycle time and idle times, resulting in reduced production rates, line efficiency, and increased system costs, which ultimately lead to low productivity. A hybrid model assembly line is a type of production line on which various models of products are assembled. These assembly lines are increasingly accepted in the industry in order to overcome the diversity of customer demand. The hybrid model assembly line is able to respond quickly to sudden changes in demand for different models of a product without maintaining a large inventory.The purpose of this paper is to present a multi-objective integer linear mathematical programming model for balancing assembly lines, which is solved using the general criteria method. The three objective functions considered in this model are: (1) Minimizing cycle time (2) Minimize the idle time of each station and (3) increase the efficiency of the assembly line. In order to investigate the model, Iran-Shargh Neishabour Company has been considered as a case study. After implementing the proposed model of the paper, the results show the optimal performance of the proposed model and the studied parameters in line balancing have been significantly improved.
B. Singh Sidhu; V. Kumar; A. Bajaj
Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2013, , Pages 10-23
Abstract
The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing .In this age of agile manufacturing the global competition characterized by both technology push and market pull had forced the companies to achieve world-class performance through continuous improvement ...
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The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing .In this age of agile manufacturing the global competition characterized by both technology push and market pull had forced the companies to achieve world-class performance through continuous improvement in their products and processes, reduction in cost, reduce wastes, increase quality, increasing of effectiveness, safety increasing, reduction of the pollution, increase decision making power and improved methodology. To want all this changes, there is need to adopt new the management system. In management system there are many types of techniques. The present work is dedicated to study and implement 5S methodology. In this work, proper system will be analyzed to reduce the wastes, reduction in cost, processes, and increase decision making power by implementing 5S techniques. Apart from this, theoretical results compared with original data from industry before and after implementation.