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Topic 8 - Production Process Design
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is workstation balancing? | placed one after another according to sequence - if needs more time = break = IDLE TIME - line balancing wants stations to have similar workloads so IDLE TIME is minimised |
| what are the steps for production process design? | 1. workload divided into smaller units so that they can be performed independently 2. minimum number of necessary workstations 3. idle time 4. calculation of annual production |
| what is a work element? | task that can't be split without interference |
| what is a workstation? | where operation is performed |
| what is an operation? | set of work elements set to a workstation |
| what is line balancing? | assignment of work elements to workstations |
| what is cycle time? | maximum time product can stay in each workstation |
| what is a balancing delay? | total idle time in production line |
| what should be considered when calculating adequate cycle time? | maximum annual production AND present market demand |
| what is task precedence? | activities that should be carried out before task can start |
| what are the rules for task selection? | 1. rule for maximum successive task - select tasks with longer execution & leaving the rest 2. helge son & birnie methodology - each task considered, execution task added to all subsequent tasks, one with greatest result is selected |