Improving Home Appliance Assembly Line Throughput Using Discrete Event Simulation and Cellular Manufacturing
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Conveyor based assembly production lines were first introduced by Ford H. in the 19th Century, in a need for responding to the increasing market capacity then. Today, many challenges are imposed by conveyor lines including unbalanced station workloads, line inflexibility in coping with changes in demand. This paper describes the implementation of discrete event simulation in the improvement of conveyor based assembly line in a local manufacturer of home appliances. As a result of the analysis, bottleneck operations were detected and possible improvement actions were tested, as well as studying the blocking and starvation caused by the different conveyor speeds. Based on the results of this study, and after implementing some of the recommended improvements, it was practically possible to achieve an immediate and remarkable 20% increase in the production line throughput. Keywords—Assembly line balancing, Cellular manufacturing, discrete event simulation.
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