Automatic Line Balancing
New Functionalities
- PMS Features: Parallel Stations
- Now you can show parallel stations in ALB – indicated by
color and the number of duplicates. Furthermore the moving of processes
with owned containers to and from those stations is also possible. When
storing the data to the hub, the part bins and all other material
planning data are automatically multiplied for the parallel stations.
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- PMS Features: Layout Planning: Takt Time per Variant
- Now you can optimize a balancing by its takt time and its layout planning.
you can
balance the same variant in one balancing with different takt times.
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- PMS Features: Layout Planning: Merge Part Bins
- Now you can look for same parts within the complete line, inside one
station or inside a material area. Until now, the complete line was
considered when a same part was searched. That means, if Part 1 is
manufactured in station 1, and another part 1 is manufactured in station
10, the algorithm would have put only one part bin in station 1, and the
process in for Part 1 in station 10 would have to use the part bin in
station 1.
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- PMS Features: Layout Planning: Merge Tools
- You can calculate the right number of necessary
tools at the line. When saving the data to the hub, it create
instances of the tools. From now on, the tool information is used by ALB
to instantiate the right number of tools at the right place in the line. That means, if Tool 1 is
required by Process 1 in Station 1/Workplace1 (S1/WP1), and another
Tool 1 is required by Process 2 in the same workplace, the algorithm has
to put only one tool in S1/WP1.
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- PMS Features: Layout Planning: Use Template Processes
- You can create non-value adding
processes inside ALB. Standard processes are loaded from a standard
process library. The processes created are copies of the standard
processes.
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- PMS Features: Multiple Activity Chart: One Worker working in
different workplaces
- You can create, delete, and assign active
resources to stations from within ALB. Now worker can work on two
different workplaces. In PMS there are no real workplaces anymore. In
the 2D View there are two rectangles, previously used as workplaces
which are now used to represent the work content of a machine or a
worker in that station.
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- PMS Features: Multiple Activity Chart: Worker Bar Chart View
- Now there is Active Resource oriented View
in ALB, where the processes for each worker
and machine (= Active Resource) are shown.
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- PMS Features: Variant Matrix: Load Processes for Product Variants
- You can load the data in a different way by loading a tree of processes and also their relations to Calculations
Models (which represent a PV).
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- PMS Features: Variant Matrix: Honor Process Sequence
- You can start a new balancing but not using the
automatic balancing algorithm. ALB put all processes in the
list of unbalanced processes. It create the first station automatically. In PMS area, the process planners often plan their
processes in the sequence which is used for manufacturing. That means
the sequence of the processes in the product variant matrix could also
be used as manufacturing sequence of the processes. The list of unbalanced processes
is customized. The processes can be sorted according to their order
in the variant matrix. When selecting processes (single selection or
multiple selection) the sum of the process times is displayed in
the status bar of that view. By selecting the first process and the
using Shift+Cursor-Down keys, you can select processes that fit
into the takt time. You can then can do a Drag and Drop of the selected
processes in the first workplace. You can repeat the selection
procedure and balance the processes to the second workplace and can
continue until all processes are balanced.
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