Enhancing Productivity Improvement by Line Balancing Techniques

The Line balancing and Optimizing cycle time methods of value engineering are used to improve the productivity of an assembly line in a XYZ Factory. The main idea starts by optimising the cycle time at all the work stations to increase the productivity. The factory works at 2 shifts, each shift contains 8 hours. To optimize the cycle time, the bottleneck process are found where the cycle time is maximum, affecting the productivity. By analying all the manufacturing processes involved in making of the metro car and found the processes which had the highest cycle time. In particular station reallocateing the workers which helps in reducing the cycle time. The production schedule can be scrutinized and by inducing skilled labours at such situations will help in fastening the process.

The productivity is increased by adding or reducing the number of employees in work stations in favour of bottleneck process and the cycle time is reduced. This is achieved by analysing all processes using QSA software.