The Methods For Solving The Problem Of Balancing An Assembly Line

As China is on the way to the processing plant of the world, the manufacturing industry-specifically the labor-intensive processing industry-in China sees a higher pursuit in the maximum of the use of the labor cost. To maximize the labor cost utility is not to exploit the due benefit of the employees by pushing them into a large labor intensity. With the popularization of EICC, the company should and could only achieve the maximum utility of the labor cost by improving the production efficiency, making sure the corresponding benefits has been produced the moment employees begin to work. Therefore, it's necessary to consult the line balance problems ,how to eliminate waiting time and transporting as well as other wasted phenomenon. By Summarizing the actual reforming activities in the past years, we can see the solving principles of the line balance problems are based on experiences. Taken the number of working stations into account, the balance of working hours in the working stations can be managed by the situation of working hours during the process of configuring working stations which is determined according to the preferential procedure provided by the procedure flowing chart. During the thinking and reforming activities, these means are found experimental, partial, even backward. Fortunately, the methods usually are simple, easy to operate and can lead a quick layout scheme to the production line. And the problem of line balance included in the documents has the optimal method, namely to determine the best plan of setting up a production line with model calculations. Although the scheme has higher accuracy of the result and higher line balancing degree achieved by the scheme, the calculation, which is complex and time-consuming, requires high performance of engineers. It is clear that a great quantity of calculation isn't suitable for the production amelioration, considering the changing environment of production line.Via studying the two regular methods which used to improve the line balance, this essay summarizes the problems that how to make one's choice and how to undertake the methods in the actual line-reforming activities facing different requirements. According to the comparison between them, principles which arose in different situations during reforming time can be summarized. It is of great reference value to the alike factories, IE engineers, and producing managers.