Time Is Money, Time Or Labors

A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

The assembly line needs to produce 6 units per hour and there is room for only four workstations. The tasks and the order in which they must be performed are shown in the following table. Tasks cannot be split, and it would be too expensive to duplicate any task.

(The graphic shows the mass production rate of cars by using an assembly line that could have required a larger work force) (Document 4). One method to manufacture a product that became very popular is the assembly line which made the rate of production per person much greater. It required

The delay rate in the production will be decreased by outsourcing the assembly fuction near the supplier of the parts.

A product would be sent to a worker who would perform a certain task and then moved on to another worker who would perform a different task. The idea was that all of the employees would have their own individual tasks to perform on one product to increase production speed and efficiency. The assembly line was first used and perfected in the automobile industry by Henry Ford. This sparked a rise in automobile sales which ultimately changed how people lived their day

The current workflow needs to address how to best organize the assembly line so that it is most efficient,

The next big upgrade to the assembly line was in the decade of the War. This is when “robots” were first introduced to the assembly lines. This was developed by the vice president of manufacture, Delmar Harder. This was a chance to see what automation could possibly do for the line. These “robots” did not run purely by themselves, the workers still played a large role. With this new-found knowledge, Ford was able to open a self-regulating plant for sheet metal stamping.

There are many reasons that time management is important. For example, if your unit was getting ready for deployment, you would need to be at the right place at the right the time, to receive any information you or your fellow soldiers may need to know before you leave. If you weren’t there when you were told to be then you would fall court martial under article 87 in the UCMJ, which is missing movement. Should you miss movement, you could face the possibility of being court martialed for being late or not showing up at all. People have also gone to prison for missing movement. When this happens your

Manufacturing operations are crucial to our company. To be successful and satisfy consumers, Jaguar Land Rover must have an efficient line of production. The operations management team is primarily concerned with overseeing, designing, and controlling the process of the business operations in the production of our goods. While we have been prosperous in the past, it is critical that we change our production process from just-in-case manufacturing to just-in-time manufacturing. Not only will implementing this new practice allow us to maintain our success, it will also allow us to surpass it and achieve an entire new level of prosperity.

The third core competency is Boeing’s dynamic assembly line. This was a valuable change to Boeing because it reduced assembly time by 50%, or from 22 days down to 11 days. The planes move 80 feet every shift and lights determine the status of the assembly line. Dynamic assembly lines are costly to imitate and rare due to the size of the plant and the components used in order to pull such a large craft throughout the building. The only substitute of a dynamic assembly line is a static assembly line, and the dynamic one performs much more efficiently.

Since the current assembly line layout should achieving 100% line efficiency when running at maximum capacity of 215 units. Thus, to operate at target 300 units/day, the current assembly line needs to redesign.

Boeing made use of lean techniques in their production system and increased its production by 50% and also reduced its floor space by 40%. Assembling a Boeing 737 is a typical job. Workers should take 367,000 parts, an same number of bolts, rivets, other equipment and 36 miles (58 kilometres) of electrical wire and then keep them all combined to make an airplane [2]. Engineers to machinists were involved in lean (reducing waste) in the factory. By creating an assembly line, aircraft will pass through the workers were they going to concentrate on assembling. Allocating all employees in the factory building and organising special teams helped a lot to solve the errors in the assembly line [2]. In the assembly line, there are eight beacon lights which reflect the production status. If everything is good it shows green colour. If an error occurs, the worker will press a button and the green light will changes to yellow and the panel board will shows the category of the problem(which category it is related to). The worker will pass on to a computer and writes about the problem in a brief manner and the problem should be assigned to special team to solve it within 30 minutes if not, the light turns to purple and the assembly line will shuts down. This moving assembly is the icon of factory’s lean strategies.

The Ford Production System (FPS) would utilize a pull-based production process that synchronizes production and ensures flow and stability throughout the production process. Ordered assembly drives costs down by providing Ford and its suppliers when and where supplies are needed. This also reduces overstocking of supplies.

We analyzed a Toshiba assembly line plan for a new subnotebook computer.  The engineering section manager, Toshihiro Nakamura, wants to make changes to the line process as designed by the engineers.  The basic assembly line equipment and space already exist within the Toshiba plant, so the subnotebook assembly process must conform to those preexisting constraints.  Specifically, the assembly line is a straight 14.4-meter conveyor system that can accommodate 8 to 12 workers plus one supporter to aid in the assembly process.  The employees work at assembling for 7.5 hours a day.  The computers are assembled from

Here is the automization level selection criteria and methods to be flexible of the system. And we will make our choice accordingly.