Automatic Line Balancing – Why It Was Considered Solved for Decades and Still Failed in Practice
Anyone looking for software for production optimization, assembly planning, balancing or cycle time optimization quickly realizes that the decisive factor is whether a solution can really map real production conditions such as work content, ergonomics, capacities, variant diversity and store floor requirements.
In this presentation from the MTM Summit, Dr. Simon Altemeier, Managing Director of TAKTIQ, will show how a practical solution for series assembly has emerged from scientific approaches to automatic line balancing – and why modern line balancing software must do more than a digital Yamazumi board or classic lean manufacturing tools.
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Why automatic line balancing has not worked in practice for a long time
- Why traditional research approaches do not take sufficient account of real production conditions
- What challenges variant diversity, drift and restrictions create for planners
- Why many planning tools were more documentation tools than real decision-making aids
What is really needed to automate line balancing
- Why production reality must be fully modeled
- Which restrictions determine real solutions
- Why automatic optimization only works if it is integrated into the planning process
How research led to an industrial solution
- How TAKTIQ was created from the first prototypes during a doctorate
- The insights gained from over ten years of collaboration with production planners
- Why the exchange between theory and practice was the key to automatic line balancing
„The computing power of our computers had long been available. But the software that planners worked with was often little more than a digital notepad. Only when this computing power is actually used and reality is recorded in software can transparency and solutions be created in seconds instead of hours. “
- 20sec – 1h cycle time
- 15 – 1.000 workplaces
- 100 – 2.500.000 tasks
- 10-1027 order variants
Is this presentation relevant to you?
This content is of particular interest to you if you:
- Plan multi-variant assembly lines
- want to make your balancing more efficient and transparent
- want to simulate and optimize production planning to a greater extent
- Reduce planning time and better secure decisions
- are looking for modern software for production planning
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