BALANCING THE LINE BY USING HEURISTIC METHOD BASED ON CPM IN SALBP –A CASE STUDY

Abstract

In mass production systems, line balancing plays a great role, but this is not easy even if it is a simple straight line. So, in order to solve these problems Heuristic methods are very much desirable. It is also found that Heuristic methods play a great role in the formation of metaheuristic methods.Therefore it is very much important to use more efficient heuristic methods. In this research paper we presents a heuristic method that is based on critical path method for simple assembly line balancing. This research is mainly concerned with objectives of minimizing the number of workstations, improvement of smoothness index, mean absolute deviation (MAD) and increasing line efficiency. Keywords-Heuristic methods,Assembly line balancing problem, Critical path method, Simple assembly line balancing. --------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------