Application Of Project Management Tools To Optimize The Assembly Time Of Lead-Acid Battery Machine
| Author(s) | : | Shreyas S Kari, A. Balakrishna |
| Institution | : | P.G Student, Department of IEM, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India |
| Published In | : | Vol. 3, Issue 6 — June 2016 |
| Page No. | : | 70-86 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
The present dissertation work was carried in a XYZ industry. In order to reduce the assembly time of Lead-Acidbattery machine (Special Purpose Machine). The machine seals the cathode and anode plate with polyethylene cover alongwith glass mate cover. Earlier the XYZ industry used to take 40 days to get the materials from the vendors and the timetaken to assemble the machine was about 30-45 days. Machine consists of 6 sub-assemblies and the time required toassemble the machine was 3394.5 min. It was observed that there was a single workstation to assemble the machine andthe line efficiency was 27.199% and the balance delay was 72.800% and it required 7 days to assemble the machine. Inorder to optimize the assembly time, industrial engineering techniques such as Work Breakdown Structure, Outline processchart, Critical Path Method, Program Evaluation Review Technique and Ranked Positional Weight Method are used.Thereby increasing the line efficiency to 95.40% and reducing the balance delay to 4.59% and it required 4 days toassemble the machine.
Shreyas S Kari, A. Balakrishna, “Application Of Project Management Tools To Optimize The Assembly Time Of Lead-Acid Battery Machine”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 3, Issue 6, pp. 70-86, June 2016.
