2016
EMSS 2016 Proceeding
Balancing of a manufacturing workstation, using a simulation and optimization model
Authors: F.D. Chaves Almanza, A. Wellens
Abstract
This paper describes the balancing of a manufacturing workstation in a metalworking industry, using simulation to predict the productivity of a workstation consisting of ten pressure welding machines, and afterwards optimizing the operation time, by assigning welding tasks to the different machines depending on the demand requirements. The operation time depends on the number of welding points that are achieved at the time, thus machine productivity is mainly related to the configuration required for each new product. Production and engineering teams of the facility are interested in knowing what would be the best workstation performance for future projects, considering possible machine settings. A simulation model was developed to get estimates of future machine productivity, obtaining the required parameters to optimize the workstation?s overall operation time by means of an optimized task schedule.
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