This study deals with line balancing of BOB T-shirt model with the help of control limit analysis and discrete event simulation of the assembly lines. In this study control limit analysis is used to measure the performance of the assembly line and used to show the bottleneck operations of the assembly line and line balancing technique improves the productivity of the sewing line of the model. ...

Concerning that many production tasks are still mainly manual, examining typical workloads at production sites is a challenging task. Currently, workspace design is evaluated by experts, filling ergonomic evaluation sheets by estimation of postures and loads. The use of motion capture systems could improve the evaluation process of body postures to achieve accurate data and detailed results on ...

The business world is becoming more competitive. Therefore, it crucial to increase the flexibility of production by decreasing time used in processes preparing lines for new items’ production, reducing changeover and setup times. This paper presents a case study where main goal reduce welding robots. Single Minute Exchange Die (SMED) was implemented, using other tools such as Spaghetti Diagram,...

Large-scale automated assembly systems are widely used in automotive, aerospace and consumer electronics industries to obtain high quality products in less time. However, one disadvantage of these automated systems is that they are composed of too many working parameters. Since it is not possible to monitor all these parameters during the assembly process, an undetected error may propagate and ...

This paper proposes a Fuzzy Group Decision Making approach for ranking work stations based on physical pressure. Fuzzy group decision making approach allows experts to evaluate different ergonomic factors using linguistic terms such as very high, high, medium, low, very low, rather than precise numerical values. In this way, there is no need to measure parameters and evaluation can be easily ma...