Abstract
One of the efforts company did continuously to compete was to reduce waste or anything that is not adding value to products such as waiting activity that cause unbalance of workload between workstations on a production path. This condition resulted in idle work station, accumulation of intermediate goods, and low work station utility. Companies finds an unbalance workload. This work station are apparently have to wait in a given time after workstations does behind it finished. For that reason, this study aims to balance the workload between workstations and increase the company production capacity. This research uses simulation approach by modelling the initial production with software promodel and evaluate performance the the initial production with an indicator current content, output, and average time in operation. The performance of the initial production line model was the smoothness index of 2007.5, the current content of 10 units, the output of 34 units, and the average time in operation of 35.19 minutes. The alternative model of the selected production trajectory is due to excel in four track performance factors is lowest current content (1 unit), highest output (48 units), lowest smoothness index (461,8) and highest production capacity (9,12 unit/hour).
Highlights
The ever-increasing growth in the manufacturing industry has trigerred companies to look for ways to stay competitive
Problems that occur in the electronics company making the fan is the amount of stacking in some work stations
Research on the assembly line balancing using simulations has never been done with electronics companies.The purpose of this study is balance the workload between workstations in fan production by simulation and increase company production capacity
Summary
The ever-increasing growth in the manufacturing industry has trigerred companies to look for ways to stay competitive. One effort made by minimizing idle activity that has no added value to the product. Unemployment activity occurs because of unbalance workload between workstations in the production path. This activity resulted in the accumulation of raw materials to be processed on a particular work station (bottleneck). Problems that occur in the electronics company making the fan is the amount of stacking in some work stations. The company has 9 work stations where the highest accumulation occurs at the packing station. This is because at the packing station requires a longer processing time compared to other work stations. It is necessary to analyze the track balance from the production line so that the production process will run smoothly
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