A Study on Basics of Assembly Line Balancing

Assembly Line production is one of the widely used production systems. The problem of Assembly Line Balancing deals with the minimization of the number of workstations, minimization of cycle time, the maximization of workload smoothness, The maximization of work relatedness It is used to assemble quickly large numbers of a uniform product. Originally, assembly lines were developed for a cost efficient mass production of standardized products, designed to exploit a high specialization of labour and the associated learning effects .In the another hand when we used assembly line balancing (ALB) this makes efficient flow-line systems available for low volume assembly-to-order production and enables modern production strategies like mass customization. Assembly lines are traditional and still attractive means of large-scale production. Since the time of Henry Ford, many developments have been taken place in production systems which changed assembly lines from strictly paced and straight single-model lines to more flexible systems with intermediate buffers. In this paper a basic study is done on assembly line balancing methods.