Analytical Study on Automobile Engine Line Work Stations and Analyze Their Working

Tushar Khirwadkar, Vivek Babele

Abstract


In an automobile assembly line, a series of stations are arranged along a conveyor belt and an automated guided vehicle performs on tasks at each station. Parallel assembly lines can provide improving line balance, productivity and so on. Combining robotic and parallel assembly lines ensure increasing flexibility of system, capacity and decreasing breakdown sensitivity. Although afore mentioned benefits, balancing of robotic parallel assembly lines is lacking – to the best knowledge of the authors- in the literature. Therefore, an observed study is proposed to define/solve the problem of automobile assembly line. The automobile assembly line also tested on the generated benchmark problems for automated guided vehicle/robotic parallel assembly line balancing problem. The superior performances of the proposed algorithms are verified by using a statistical test. The results show that the algorithms are very competitive and promising tool for further researches in the literature.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jiegt.v3i2.508

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