GMS 401 Midterm: Line Balancing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 401
• Professor: Fatemeh Firouzi

Document Summary

Assigning tasks to workstaions in such a way that the work staions have approximately equal ime requirements. Minimizes idle ime alone the line and results in high uilizaion of labour and equipment: idle ime occurs if ime requirements are not equal among workstaions. Line balancing procedure: draw and label a precedence diagram. Precedence network: a diagram that shows the tasks and their precedence requirements. This step is similar to drawing the project network using aon approach: calculate desired cycle ime required for line. Cycle time: the maximum ime allowed at each workstaion to complete its set of tasks on a unit. Units required per day: calculate theoreical minimum number of workstaions. Minimum number of workstaions that are required to make sure that we can saisfy the demand in ime. Theoreical minimum number of workstaions = i=1. In this step we assign the tasks to the work staions.