Automatic Line Balancing – Why It Was Considered Solved for Decades and Still Failed in Practice
In this presentation from the MTM Summit, TAKTIQ Managing Director Dr. Simon Altemeier tells the story behind automatic line balancing:
From the first experiments during his doctorate at a major car manufacturer – through real experience in series assembly – to the founding and development of TAKTIQ.
You will learn why automatic line balancing has been “solved” in theory for decades – and what was really necessary to make it usable in practice.
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Insights From This Presentation
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 or flow 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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