AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION LINE USING ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING TECHNIQUES

The main aim of an assembly line is to group the different facilities and workers in an efficient manner in order to obtain effective utilization of man power and machine. This calls for uniform rate of production as well as decrease in the work in process inventory. Hence, this paper attempts to achieve these in an assembly line of an automotive manufacturing unit using three different techniques such as Largest candidate rule (LCR), Kilbridge and wester column method (KWC) and Rank positional weighted method (RPW). All the three methods show better efficiency and a comparison is also drawn amongst the three to determine the best suited technique pertaining to the current research work.