Author : Anoop Kumar Elia and D.Choudhary

The specified objective is to minimize system and balancing losses, subject to precedence constraints. The work carried is a multi-objective which will minimize cycle time, work stations, balancing losses, idle time, and smoothing the workload. The losses arises out of variable operation time will influence the system losses. If any of the work station has high idle time and another work station has no idle time than this may result in high disruption within the system. Therefore it is identified that the idle time is a prime factor for all the losses within the system that results in system imbalance and instability. When the idle time is minimized and workload distribution is optimized then the stability of the system will be high. For minimizing the idle time and losses the method is divided into two stages. 1) Optimize the number of work stations with predetermined cycle time. 2) Optimizing the assembly line (AL) for minimum losses.

Keywords: Assembly line, line optimization, minimization, models load, number of stations, idle time of each station, iterations, balancing load

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.2 (April-2016)