Improving Productivity Of Assembly Line In A Manufacturing Company (Printed Circuit Board Assembly)

Mohamad Faiz , Adnan (2008) Improving Productivity Of Assembly Line In A Manufacturing Company (Printed Circuit Board Assembly). Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This study describe on how to improve the productivity on the production line of Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) manufacturing plant in Tangkak with the application of line balancing technique. The process of this manufacturing plant is combination of automated machine assembly and manual assembly which are using human to assemble the PCBA. Line balancing techniques are important to equalize work load among the workstations, balance the workstation and keeping the production line produce in high productivity. To achieve this objective, three heuristic line balancing methods (Largestcandidate rule, Kilbridge and Wester’s method and Ranked Positional Weight method) and software (ARENA) were used to analyze the data from the production line of the company. After analyzes, Kilbridge and Wester’s method and Ranked Positional Weight method provides the same result and also the best results. The performance (productivity, production output and line balancing loss) of the proposed line is compared with the current line to justify the improvement of productivity. This has achieved its objective because the productivity has shown an improvement of as much as 152% just by reducing 53.9% of the line balancing loss and improved 101.5% of the production output.

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