SimBa: an approach for manual production lines balancing

Author

Praça, Isabel C.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Inf., Inst. Superior de Engenharia, Porto, Portugal

fYear

1997

fDate

7-9 Aug 1997

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

47

Abstract

The balancing and the comparison between different solutions through the simulation of operation of man based production lines is an important tool to help to decide properly in the level of production planning. This tool becomes much more important in the planning of lines based on variable performance work stations, due to needs of learning, fast changes of operations, which cause frequent bottlenecks and difficulties in previewing the future performance of the production lines. This paper discusses this problem, looking for a solution to perform the line balance and to provide a tool to simulate posterior production to help the production manager to configure the line according to the objective of balancing it

Keywords

assembling; computational complexity; graph theory; production control; SimBa; bottlenecks; manual production lines balancing; production lines configuration; production manager; production planning; variable performance work stations; Analytical models; Capacity planning; Context modeling; Flow production systems; Humans; Manufacturing systems; Performance analysis; Product design; Production planning; Production systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Assembly and Task Planning, 1997. ISATP 97., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Marina del Rey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3820-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISATP.1997.615382

Filename

615382