http://www.iaeme.com/IJMET/index.asp 22 editor@iaeme.com International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET) Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2017, pp. 22–33 Article ID: IJMET_08_03_003 Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/IJMET/issues.asp?JType=IJMET&VType=8&IType=3 ISSN Print: 0976-6340 and ISSN Online: 0976-6359 © IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION LINE USING ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING TECHNIQUES P Saurabh Jha and Mohd Salman Khan M.Tech Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, ASET, Amity University, Noida, UP, India ABSTRACT The main aim of an assembly line is to group the different facilities and workers in an efficient manner in order to obtain effective utilization of man power and machine. This calls for uniform rate of production as well as decrease in the work in process inventory. Hence, this paper attempts to achieve these in an assembly line of an automotive manufacturing unit using three different techniques such as Largest candidate rule (LCR), Kilbridge and wester column method (KWC) and Rank positional weighted method (RPW). All the three methods show better efficiency and a comparison is also drawn amongst the three to determine the best suited technique pertaining to the current research work. Key words: Largest candidate rule, Rank positional weight, kilbridge and wester column method, assembly line balancing. Cite this Article: P Saurabh Jha and Mohd Salman Khan. An Experimental Study on the Automotive Production Line Using Assembly Line Balancing Techniques. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, 8(3), 2017, pp. 22– 33. http://www.iaeme.com/ijmet/issues.asp?JType=IJMET&VType=8&IType=3 1. INTRODUCTION Assembly line balancing consists of a series of work stations that comprises of work elements. A set of work element having tasks which have a defined cycle time or operating time with a set of interrelated activities in a certain order. Each work element possesses a task time which is a standard time to complete the elemental task. The collective time of all the workstations is the total work content that determines the total time for the assembly. Assembly line balancing is mainly done for the effective utilization of machine and to achieve less congestion within the production system. The three suitable techniques of assembly line balancing i.e. largest candidate rule, kilbridge and wester column method and rank positional weighted method are applied here to determine the best results pertaining to the assembly line which will eventually decrease the idle time and material handling.