A CASE STUDY ON ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING IN A ENCLOSURE MAUFACTURING SHEET METAL INDUSTRY

Abstract

A case study has been conducted in a Sheet – Metal based Enclosure manufacturing industry, to create a streamlined Manual Assembly Process for a Single products. Existing Assembly Line has been studied and the true precedence of activities has been extracted. The Single Product manual assembly process has then been systematically rearranged by adopting ‘Largest Candidate Rule’ as the line balancing technique. This rearrangement is carried out independent of user intervention after feeding the data to a computer algorithm implemented in C++ language. The results of the study are encouraging.