Lean Line Balancing for an Electronics Assembly Line

Abstract

Line balancing is required in most of production lines, but bottleneck point often happens. As the results, many wastes would be occurred. There are many methods or tools to balance the line as well as eliminate wastes. In this paper, a lean line balancing would be studied as a simple tool, but impressive results would be brought. It would be applied in improvement of an electronics assembly line. Analysis on the current line would be done to figure out wastes and conceive the ideas to solve them. The quality of production line would be shown on the productivity, line balancing index, and effectiveness on resources. Actually, many benefits for the studied electronics assembly line were brought, which could be considered as a force to apply lean line balancing tool for other production lines.