Assembly Line Balancing Case study to Reduce Number of Workstations

Abstract

The assembly lines take account of production process those are performed at various work station carried
out by workers at each one station. This manufacturing technique incorporates small task to be completed
in sequence at each work station. Since most of the tasks performed at each stage are uncomplicated to
execute, the company can employ minimum wage workers to do them. This reduces the overall manual
labor costs as well as it also requires minimum training. Balancing of line is the solution and achieved by
rearranging stations to normalize the workload.
In this work, the case study is presented for the balance of assembly line of head lamp. A work-study technique
which includes the Maynard's operation sequence techniques (MOST are used to identify non value added
time of activities. Methodology is suggested has reduced the cycle time and upgrading activities are identified
to condense the bottleneck of the line.