The Application of Optimization Technique in Production LineBalancing of Electronic Devices

Abstract

This paper studied the improvement of line efficiency of electronic devices production in order to meet demands. In many situations, the production line balancing is solved by applying the developed mathematical models such as the basic line balancing, the line balancing with restriction constraint, and the balanced lines considering merged resources. The current method of case study and the reviewed heuristic as Modified Helgeson-Birnie were used in the comparison. From the computational results, it can be shown that the proposed models can be applied for solving the real situations appropriately. The line efficiencies are increased to become 87% of the product_A and 86% of the product_B. And, the averaged line efficiency can be increased to 90.43% if the case of merged resources is allowed.