Lecture-5 Assembly Line Balancing Dr. Dileep S. More Operations Management Group IIM Calcutta Objectives • Understand the concept of assembly line balancing • Study a general procedure to balance the line • Study advantages of line balancing Introduction • The first movable assembly line was created by Ford to manufacture the Ford Model T • Ford installed a capstan and a thick cable to move the cars between assembly stations Ford’s assembly line concept A Line with Multi Operators
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POM Assembly line history The assembly line is a process in which workers are put in order to assemble the parts faster to finish the product. This process affected the industrial revolution in a great manner. The companies were able to construct their products faster and satisfying the demand that was needed at that time. Many companies try to perfect the process in different manners. Then‚ Ford Company was the first in creating a moving assemble line. After that ford was the leader in selling
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Waiting line management: unit 11. The waiting line is a list of customers who remains waiting for getting certain goods or services from service center. Understanding waiting lines or queues and learning how to manage them is one of the most important areas in operation management. In organizations or in personal life‚ there are examples of processes which generates waiting lines or queues. Such waiting lines occur because the current services facility is insufficient to provide service at that
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Stretching their way across the Peruvian desert‚ the Nasca lines are one of the greatest mysteries in Latin America. The Nasca lines- or Geoglyphs are colossal lines carved into the earth and are believed to have been created over two thousand years ago by the ancient people of Nasca. Due to the dry and windless climate‚ the Nasca lines have remained remarkably preserved through time. A continuous line makes geometric shapes and animal figures‚ some as long as two hundred meters. The technology
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ The key word here is "two". Throughout our lives we constantly face decisions where we have two choices. Even when it seems there is only one choice‚ we can decide either to DO it‚ or NOT do it; so there are STILL two alternatives. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler‚ long I stood Then there are times we wish we could do BOTH; HAVE our cake and eat it too! We know we can’t‚ so we must agonize over the choices; weigh the possibilities. And
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Chris Evans Managerial Communication Case Study – Spree Cruise Lines Executive Summary: Determining the course of action with damage to port‚ prop‚ and passenger moral. There are three key issues that Spree Cruise Lines are being faced with. One‚ they were accused of damage to the port that they went out of on (DATE). The problem here is that the engine and prop may have not been properly fixed or maintained from the last voyage. The second issue is the actual damage to the 2nd prop and what
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broken into two parts. The first is to recognize the principles of flame ionization and atomic spectra. The second is to observe and thus further understand the line spectra for multiple elements or molecules as well as determine the correlation between emission spectra and atomic structure. Experimental Procedure Procedure 1: Observation of Line Spectra by Discharge Tubes Six discharge lamps were selected – argon‚ carbon dioxide‚ helium‚ hydrogen‚ iodine‚ mercury‚ and xenon. Using the spectroscopes
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Leon Prikhodovskiy Professor Rhodes 8-10 PG draft. Goal Line Technology Two forty-five minute half’s‚ eleven players on each team‚ one goal on each side of the field separated by one hundred twenty yards of grass. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. (Most Popular Sport in the World) The game is played in over two hundred and four countries around the world. The sport is officiated by four referees; a center head referee‚ two sideline referees‚ and one in charge of substitutions
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BADM 615 Assembly Line Design Problems (Solutions) Assembly Line Design Problems (Solutions) The following tables give the tasks‚ task times‚ and predecessors that are to be performed on an assembly line. Consider the scenarios and answer the corresponding questions for each. 1. Scenario One: Task A B C D E F G H Seconds 20 7 20 22 15 10 16 8 Preceding Tasks — A B B C D E‚ F G The workday is seven hours long; and the demand for completed products is 750 per
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In the book‚ “The Bottom Billion”‚ Paul Collier points out global poverty for 80 percent of the world‚ is falling away rapidly. Yet in spite of the worlds astonishing rate to do away with poverty‚ there is still a small percentage‚ especially places in Africa and the Middle East where the economy is the same and is not improving‚ and the population just seems to continue to grow. Collier is viewed as a specialist in the field of financial matters and the issues of common war particularly in Africa
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