Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss

An assembly line is a sequence of workstations, connected together by a material handling system, which is used to assemble components into a final product. The economic importance of assembly as a manufacturing process has led to extensive efforts for designing an assembly line to ensure efficiency...

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Main Authors: Dilip Roy, Debdip khan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2011-01-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://growingscience.com/msl/Vol1/msl_2010_9.pdf
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description An assembly line is a sequence of workstations, connected together by a material handling system, which is used to assemble components into a final product. The economic importance of assembly as a manufacturing process has led to extensive efforts for designing an assembly line to ensure efficiency and cost effectiveness of assembly operations. These efficiency and effectiveness can be maximized by minimizing balancing loss and system loss. The current work offers a range based measure for System loss and describes a technique for jointly minimizing balancing loss and system loss. To arrive at the optimum solution of the joint minimization problem, the same has been reduced to sequential marginal minimization problems and simulation technique has been installed for obtaining the optimal solution. For demonstration purpose, one example has been worked out to indicate the strength of the suggested method.
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spelling doaj.art-d12066341675422cbe45d945a10c0f262022-12-21T22:38:34ZengGrowing ScienceManagement Science Letters1923-93351923-93432011-01-01111322Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system lossDilip RoyDebdip khanAn assembly line is a sequence of workstations, connected together by a material handling system, which is used to assemble components into a final product. The economic importance of assembly as a manufacturing process has led to extensive efforts for designing an assembly line to ensure efficiency and cost effectiveness of assembly operations. These efficiency and effectiveness can be maximized by minimizing balancing loss and system loss. The current work offers a range based measure for System loss and describes a technique for jointly minimizing balancing loss and system loss. To arrive at the optimum solution of the joint minimization problem, the same has been reduced to sequential marginal minimization problems and simulation technique has been installed for obtaining the optimal solution. For demonstration purpose, one example has been worked out to indicate the strength of the suggested method.http://growingscience.com/msl/Vol1/msl_2010_9.pdfBalancing lossIdle timeSystem lossMeasure for System loss Slackness
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Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
Management Science Letters
Balancing loss
Idle time
System loss
Measure for System loss Slackness
title Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
title_full Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
title_fullStr Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
title_full_unstemmed Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
title_short Optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
title_sort optimum assembly line balancing by minimizing balancing loss and a range based measure for system loss
topic Balancing loss
Idle time
System loss
Measure for System loss Slackness
url http://growingscience.com/msl/Vol1/msl_2010_9.pdf
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