Assembly Line Balancing in Manufacturing Processes: Using Simulation Model

Abstract:

Assembly line design is an important part of the production system in manufacturing processes. An assembly line, which consists of a sequence of workstations, is an efficient method of manufacturing high-volume products such as automobile parts and microcomputers. In designing an assembly line, it is common practice to "balance" the line so that a more uniform flow is maintained. The Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) scheduler evaluates the effect of the different online sequence of parts on production cycle, balances workload and utilization ratio, minimizes span of the assembly line. The simulation model approach in this study to obtain the scenarios which are reducing the unbalancing time. The simulator presented herein, named Assembly Line Simulator (ALS), can be used as supporting tool in finding solutions of the assembly line balancing problem. Throughout the scenarios of the optimum method will be chosen which scenario is represented minimum idle time it will be the optimum balance of the assembly line.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 748)
• Pages: 1183-1187
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.748.1183
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Ali A.J. Adham, Hamzah Bin Zainuddin, Fadilah Binti Siali, Noor Azlinna Binti Azizan
• Keywords: Assembly Line System, Manufacturing Process, Simulation Model, Unbalancing of Assembly Line System

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