R Naresh Kumar Reddy

Dr. P Venkataramaiah

Abstract

The greentech industries pvt ltd is a large scale automobile ancillary company which manufactures spare parts of different automobiles. In the industry mainly casting and finishing processes are performed. This study is carried on a finishing process line of a part in the industry. The line studied is Suzuki 1.5L housing in greentech industries pvt Ltd. This line contains six semi-automated machines OP10, OP20, OP30, Leak test, Honing and Washing on which three operators are working, handling two machines each. The standardized work combination chart, production capacity sheet and operator load chart are used to determine idle time of the operator, production capacity, load on the operator and line efficiency. The line is keenly studied and is then balanced so that, the load on operators is almost equal, idle time of operators is reduced and the efficiency of the line is increased. The layout is designed based on the allocation of operators to machines. The allocation of operators is made by using genetic algorithm

Keywords- Line balancing, Idle time, production capacity, Load on the operator, Genetic algorithm, Layout design.