Designing a New Layout for a Balanced Production Line: A Practical Application

Marlene Brás, Ana Moura, Ana Moura

2022

Abstract

In most manufacturing companies, the layout designs and line balancing problems are often based on personal experience and made without following a theoretical methodology. By applying those ad-hoc solutions, various problems may arise when quick changes of capacity or any other constraints occur. This work was developed for a Portuguese SME in the electronics industry, that had some changes at the production level, which caused limitations in terms of space on the factory floor. Furthermore, it was also revealed that an existing production line with high production rates was gradually losing efficiency. Bringing these two issues together, the idea was to design a new plant layout to improve the performance of this production line, considering the new space constraints. To increase the production line efficiency, decisions such as the number of workers and assembly task assignment to stations need to be optimized to increase its throughput and decrease cost. An integer linear programming model was developed and used to solve the balancing problem. Considering six different optimization criteria, five variants of the model were tested. Using the best solution according to predefined Key Indicators Performance, the layout was developed using the Systematic Layout Planning approach.

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Brás M. and Moura A. (2022). Designing a New Layout for a Balanced Production Line: A Practical Application. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-548-7, pages 161-168. DOI: 10.5220/0010827400003117


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@conference{icores22,
author={Marlene Brás and Ana Moura},
title={Designing a New Layout for a Balanced Production Line: A Practical Application},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2022},
pages={161-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010827400003117},
isbn={978-989-758-548-7},
}


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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Designing a New Layout for a Balanced Production Line: A Practical Application
SN - 978-989-758-548-7
AU - Brás M.
AU - Moura A.
PY - 2022
SP - 161
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0010827400003117