Line Balancing for Construction Equipment Production
Master Variants, Constraints, and Order Programs with Confidence Using TAKTIQ
In the production of construction equipment, a wide variety of machine models, long cycle times, and complex assembly processes are part of everyday operations. Even minor changes to the order program can throw existing line balancing out of balance and necessitate new planning decisions.
With TAKTIQ, construction equipment manufacturers can achieve greater transparency in their production planning and perform line balancing in an efficient and traceable manner.
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Complex Machines—Long Cycle Times:
Why Line Balancing for Construction Equipment Is Challenging
Whether it’s wheel loaders, telescopic handlers, excavators, or other construction equipment, production planners must balance different machine variants, work content, and constraints. The wide variety of variants often results in significant time spreads between stations, which can lead to over- or underutilization. Therefore, every adjustment often requires line balancing of the monthly production schedule.
Time Spread Between Stations
Differences in work content and processing times lead to time spreads. While some stations are operating at full capacity, others are not utilized.
Constraints Increase the Complexity of Planning
Constraints must be taken into account during line balancing. Even minor changes can have an impact on the entire production plan.
Stop-and-Go on the Production Line
Production often operates on a stop-and-go basis. Downtime caused by overloads can quickly affect the planned production volume.
Changes to the Order Program
New variants or changes in the product mix can quickly throw existing line balancing out of balance and require a new plan.
- Directly assess the impact of new machine variants and order programs before they affect the assembly line.
- Transparently analyze time spreads and systematically reduce both overcapacity and underutilization.
- Centrally manage constraints, tasks, and planning data, and make them available for line balancing.
- Ensure stable line balancing of complex stop-and-go assembly lines and continuous flow production, and provide a transparent basis for planning decisions.
Make Line Balancing Predictable with TAKTIQ
Greater Transparency and Less Effort in the Production of Construction Equipment
The wide variety of variants, time spreads, and constraints make production planning for construction equipment a challenging task. With TAKTIQ, you can assess the impact of changes early on and ensure transparent line balancing. This results in more stable assembly lines and reduces the planning workload.
Here’s How TAKTIQ Helps You With Line Balancing for Your Assembly Planning for Motorhomes and Caravans:
Use comprehensive analysis functions and visualized key metrics to evaluate variants and production times in detail. Simulate the effects of different order programs and use flexible variant linking with any feature rules to ensure smooth production.
- Adjust the frequencies of the features without having to edit individual order variants
- Automatic verification of constructability rules when variants are modified manually
- Simultaneous adjustment of multiple take rates and the total number of orders
- Easily Split Order Programs According to Rules
- Mathematical optimization technology generates an order program based on target specifications with minimal deviation
- The suggestion system and automatic line balancing take maintained requirements into account
- Identify optimization potentials more easily (reduce walking distances, avoid height changes, identify redundant tools)
- Workshops speed up the process and help avoid overlooked requirements
- Identify and resolve limiting constraints
- Interactive precedence graph visualizes relationships between tasks
- Height profile in assembly line clearly visualized
- Directly detect conflicts in assembly areas
- Identify and resolve large groups of tasks and limiting constraints
Our Customers Agree
Maximilian Remmele Head of work preparation at Kramer-Werke„TAKTIQ is indispensable for us because it creates transparency, digitally maps our employees’ knowledge and noticeably increases capacity utilization. From our point of view, there is no better software for line balancing. “
Dr. Björn Boßman Head of Planning Assembly at Mercedes„With TAKTIQ’s interactive line balancing, we save a lot of time in line optimization. Maintaining process requirements directly in the software ensures that solutions can be implemented in practice. The flexible simulation of various line balancing scenarios and order programs with TAKTIQ saves us additional time and creates transparency for well-founded decisions. “
Thomas Felder Production Planning and Control„For us, TAKTIQ is a helpful tool for making production data understandable and actionable. Potential opportunities and anomalies become apparent more quickly, allowing us to take more targeted action. This supports the continuous improvement of our processes. “
Mike Appenmaier Head of Process Planning at Dethleffs„TAKTIQ helps us to visualize tasks and processes. We recognize where waste occurs, can specifically evaluate special orders and continuously improve our production times. This creates transparency and makes fluctuations manageable. “
Raimund Schwierz Product Owner PP & WFM at CLAAS„Considering the complexity of the software, it is surprisingly easy to use. Overall, it is very intuitive and, in my opinion, the best solution on the market. I particularly appreciate the fast support – there is always a quick solution to any queries. “
Dominik Hammerl Global Lead Manufacturing Innovation at AGCO„TAKTIQ makes our assembly and order planning more transparent, intuitive and faster. With constant changes to cycle times, product mix and assembly rates, TAKTIQ allows us to maintain an overview and avoid bottlenecks in the assembly line despite high capacity utilization. Finally, we always have a sympathetic ear when it comes to implementing new software requirements and ideas. “
Dawid Weremiuk Vehicle Production Planner at Porsche„TAKTIQ brings structure, transparency and speed to our planning – with the same precision that we at Porsche expect on the road.“
Know in 15 Minutes Whether We Are a Good Match
Find out in a brief initial consultation whether our software is right for you. Together we will check whether and how much benefit you can achieve with TAKTIQ in your production and planning. Clearly, quickly and without obligation.
- Quickly gain clarity as to whether our software is suitable for your production
- Free initial consultation and identification of potential
- Discussion of your personal challenge