Case 2.3 Assembly Line Balancing

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As stated as Adeppa (2015), Henry Ford’s was introduced about the assembly line and he was optimized the assembly line problem in order to increase the assembly line efficiency to reduce waste as target to reach millions of dollars per year. Cycle times that need to achieve cannot be exceed by the sum of durations of all tasks assigned at workstation. As stated as Ong & Twentiarani (2012), the assembly line problems are important to solve in order to achieve high efficiency assembly line. The problem of assembly line balancing is to assign the tasks or works to workstations that can minimze the idle time of the line (Agpak, Benzer & Gokcen, 2006). 2.3 Assembly Line Balancing An Assembly Line balancing (LB) is used to optimize the workstation or assembly line throughput and reduction of production time and cost (Ito, Mohamad, Nordin & Salleh, 2012). By using line balancing method, the productivity will increase with maximize output. This method is used to identify problem in an assembly line and to increase the line efficiency (Falkenauer, n.d.). It also can be used to analyse waste activities that involve in operation and production line. Line balancing methods focus in balance of assembly or production line task at all workstation and minimize …show more content…

The Assembly Line balancing (LB) is an important method to identify problem in assembly line to reduce the production cost (Jameel, 2015). However, it is not an easy task to balance the task of operation where some difficulties will occur such as need to rearrange the sequence of elemental work or operation to minimize the imbalance of task or operation in production line. Other problem that may occur is it is hard to moves the heavy machines and equipment that also expensive to other places or

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