Increasing Productivity by Reducing Cycle Time in Assembly line of an Automotive Industry using Work Study Techniques

Abstract

The paper reflects the study conducted at one of the famous automobile assembly plant in which there are two assembly lines before paint assembly line and after paint assembly line. The study was carried out on before paint assembly line with an aim to reduce the cycle time of different work stations to complete the operation at the assembly line in time. Study was done for each bottle neck operation of before paint assembly line and found that the workers had to carry the parts to assembly line from sub assembly station which involves great deal of time, and at many times, the assembly line had to be stopped to complete the operations. This non-futile time of the workers were reduced by 163 seconds by introducing trolley kits on the before paint assembly line.