International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science Volume 3, Issue 2, March-April, 2015 ISSN 2091-2730 560 www.ijergs.org Use of Powerless Material Moving Facility for Assembly Line Balancing Tushar.D.Patil 1 , Aditya Talele 2 , Indraneel Shinde 3 , Priyanka Gunjal 4 . 1 Assistant Professor Department of mechanical Engineering, Sandip Foundation’s, SITRC,Nashik 2, 3, 4 U. G. Student Department of mechanical Engineering Sandip Foundation’s, SITRC,Nashik adityainventor@gmail.com, adityatalele@yahoo.in Abstract— Among various production systems assembly line production system is most widely adapted system. Basically assembly line is distribution of various activities among workstations utilizing man power and facilities for enhancing work distribution. Major problem related to assembly line balancing is uncertain distribution of activities as per capabilities of workstation and improper use of human resources. In this paper problem of line balancing in oil tank manufacturing has been discussed using power less material moving facility (PMMF).The paper basically aims at reducing bottleneck time by proper interlinking of machineries and thereby increasing productivity. Keywords— Line balancing, moving facility, cycle time, bottleneck time, powerless, production system, interlinking, workstations. INTRODUCTION For any production system any assembly line consists of set of workstation arranged in one particular fashion interlinking each other with material handling device. It can be linear, circular, u shaped, ladder etc. The movement of material via assembly line begins with part or material fed at initial point with particular feed rate. Basically workstation is considered any point on assembly line in which task is assigned and performed on part. The work or task carried out can be brought out by manually operated machinery, computer controlled machinery, hydraulic equipments etc. In simple once the material enters the first station task begin to perform sequentially. The work piece is subjected to various tasks one after the other as per sequence assigned. The time taken to compute each task at each operation is known as process time. The time required for single work piece to undergo all the task from starting point to end point is cycle time. The cycle time is predetermined by desired production rate in assembly line. Also the desired production rate is set so that end product is produced within stipulated time period. The concept of manufacturing assembly line was first introduced by Henry ford in early 1990's [1]. It was designed with an intention of increasing productivity by enhancing manufacturing method. Certain conditions are to be followed for designing the assembly lines are as follows; 1) Number of workstations and number of work elements should suffice each other in quantity. Minimum number of workstation should be = 1 2) The process time should not exceed cycle time. 3) Interlinking of workstations. LITERATURE REVIEW The literature survey (Hadi Gokcen, Kursad Agpak , Recep Benzer ― Balancing of parallel Assembly lines, 2005) states that productivity improvement in assembly line is important because it increases capacity and reduces cost so constructing parallel lines is one of the best methods which can affectively enhance assembly line balancing. In April 2007, author Nuchsara Kreingkorakot and Nalin Pianthong studied assembly line balancing [2]. This study is focussed on assigning task to an ordered sequence relations among task are that the precedence relations among tasks are satisfied and performance measure is optimized. They also concluded that research has made significant algorithm development in solving simple problems.