Abstracto

Optimization of Cycle Time for Wire Harness Assembly ? Line Balancing and Kaizen Approach

Aasheet Kumar, Gaurav Chaudhary, Manish Kalra, Binit Kumar Jha

As the customer needs product at higher quality, shorter delivery time, higher customer service level and lower price; companies adopt continuous productivity and quality improvement to survive in the increasingly competitive world market. To cater to this, line balancing and kaizen are effective approaches to improve the productivity and quality. This paper has made use of these approaches to improve the productivity on a Wire Harness Assembly line of a company manufacturing wire harnesses for automobiles. Here, the balance rate has been calculated before and after improvement to show the reduction in manpower requirement and increase in output.