Operations balancing and discrete event simulation: reducing operator idleness on an assembly line

• Autor(a) principal: Vilela, Flávio Fraga
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Piedade, Diego Dobscha da Cruz, Montevechi, José Arnaldo Barra, Leal, Fabiano
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Produção Online
• Texto Completo: https://www.producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/3842
• topic: Balancing Operations. Computational Simulation. Productive Efficiency.; Balanceamento de Operações. Simulação Computacional. Eficiência Produtiva.

The conduct directed towards interventions focused on reducing waste in manufacturing operations and services are precedent and imperative actions that every process manager must constantly seek. The reduction of losses and waste with consequent increase of productive efficiency is configured as one of the great objectives of organizations and stakeholders. Currently, various techniques and tools for waste reduction can be employed, however, in this work, the concept of production flow leveling, which can be achieved through balancing operations, will be used. Therefore the objective of the present work is to apply computational simulation as a complement to the operations balancing method, reducing the number of assembly line operators and their idleness in a real manufacturing process. As the research method, a case study was used with the use of information and real data collected through an investigation conducted in the company that lasted 8 months. Therefore, it can be stated that the balancing project of assembly line operations was effective since a reduction in overall idleness to a value close to 4% was found according to the computational simulation report.