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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2016.18.4.107

A Study on the Improvement of Load Balance for Materials Supply Worker in Automobile Assembly Line  

Jang, Jung-Hwan (Department of Industrial Engineering, INHA University)
Jang, Jing-Lun (Department of Industrial Engineering, INHA University)
Quan, Yu (Department of Industrial Engineering, INHA University)
Jho, Yong-Chul (Korea Port Training Institute Incheon)
Kim, Yu-Seong (*KIA AUTOBILE Kwang-Ju Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering Team)
Bae, Sang-Don (*KIA AUTOBILE Kwang-Ju Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering Team)
Kang, Du-Seok (*KIA AUTOBILE Kwang-Ju Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering Team)
Lee, Jae-Woong (*KIA AUTOBILE Kwang-Ju Vehicle Manufacturing Engineering Team)
Lee, Chang-Ho (Department of Industrial Engineering, INHA University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.18, no.4, 2016 , pp. 107-114 More about this Journal
Abstract
The efficiency of the purchasing and procurement logistics is important in automotive industry. The rationalization of production system is directly impact on productivity and quality. For this reason importance of logistics is high. Despite we are continuously making effort, our country are still below the level than developed country on logistics efficiency. Rising labor costs is an important factor in increasing logistics costs. So workforce reduction in logistics department is a large part. We deal with A-company inbound logistics, especially procurement logistics in automotive logistics as research object. So in this study we do research on work load balance about workers. We do research on 1,475 kinds of components in procurement process. We applied work load balance algorithm on chassis, final, sequence, trim warehouses workers. According to number of workers and average M/H, algorithm is applied in two ways. After applied work load balance algorithm we reduced numbers of workers from 28 to 20 and improved worker load balance rate from 47.1% to 93.7%.
Keywords
Load Balance; Automobile Assembly Line; Line Balancing;
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