Statistical Analysis in Assembly Line Balancing: Lean Manufacturing Application in Energy Sector

Authors : Burcu Özcan, İpek DOLU, Kubra MUTLU

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Publication Date : 2019-12-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The elimination of non-value added activities, maximizing the use of re sources, reducing costs, ensuring continuity of these eforts, increasing quality and productivity are essential forms. The lean manufactur ing technique developed for this purpose is based on statistics data.  Statistical analysis provides an improvement by presenting the current  situation and future situation. The lean manufacturing operation was  carried out in the `Qatar Breaker` assembly line, which operates in  the energy sector. Circuit breakers are switchgears which are used to  cut o the load current and short-circuit currents occur in high volt age and high-current switches. In this study, The Lean Production  Activity Plan is conducted. Throughout this plan, process data col lection, process analysis, process uctuation and then standardization  with kaizen have been applied in this order. Due to the fact that the  use of automation is not widespread in the production system of the  factory and manual labor is of rst priority, process analyses were made  with video records. Then standard operation tables were prepared and  new process design was created according to the combination of these  tables and sales planning departments` data. As a result, assembly line  balancing was performed by creating work  ow according to this new process design.
Keywords : Assembly Line Balancing, Lean Manufacturing, Statistical Analysis