Line Balancing Techniques To Improve Productivity Using Work Sharing Method

Abstract

Line balancing is an effective tool to improve the throughput of assembly line while reducing bottleneck, cycle time. Line balancing is the problem of assigning operation to workstation along an assembly line, in such a way that assignment is optimal in some sense. This project mainly focuses on improving overall efficiency of single model assembly line by reducing the bottleneck activities, cycle time and distribution of work load at each work station by line balancing, using line balancing techniques mainly work sharing method .The methodology adopted includes calculation of cycle time of process, identifying bottleneck activities, calculating total work load on station and distribution of work load using code block (c++) software on each workstation also redesigning the layout by line balancing, in order to improve the efficiency of line and increase overall productivity.