Automation of assembly unit in an alternator manufacturing industry

  Vinish V,  Dr Haris Naduuthody

Facility planning is critical design of manufacturing facilities due to their role in achieving an efficient product flow. It is estimated that between 20%-50% of the total costs in manufacturing is related to material handling. This cost can be reduced until 30% through an effective facility planning. Proper analysis of facility layout design could improve the performance of production line such as bottleneck rate, minimize material handling cost, reduces idle time, and raises the efficiency and utilization of labor, equipment and space. Similarly automation of assembly could improve the production by improving productivity, accuracy and quality. Moreover it could reduce the effort of labor. This study aims at the optimization of manufacturing unit of KEL, by addressing layout with the help of a software solution implemented in MS Excel. Moreover an attempt is made to design an automated assembly system. Together they could improve productivity at KEL.

Keywords- Facility planning, Automation, Productivity, material handling, facility layout

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1603149
Page Number(s) - 927-932
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 3 | September 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Vinish V,  Dr Haris Naduuthody,   "Automation of assembly unit in an alternator manufacturing industry", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 3, pp.927-932, September 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1603149.pdf