ENGINEERING THE PROCESS FLOW

Process is the assembly or manufacturing activities from raw material until finish good product. The flow process will running on assembly line by work station. Each work station must have their own process. Process set up for each workstation must considered the volume forecast & total working hours per day.

Cycle time for each workstation need to determine before plan the assembly activities to ensure that our assembly line was balance. Balancing of cycle times is very important and usefull for process control set up.

Example : Determine cycle time for PRODUCT XXX

Production/day : 10
Total working hours/day : 8
Cycle time : 10 unit production/8 hours : 0.8 hr per unit production.

Each workstation activities must be set up with cycle time 0.8 hrs. Total process activities will be done for each workstation not more or less than 0.8 hrs. The finish good product will roll out from our assembly line for each 0.8hr period time. From here size of man power to produce product xxx can be decided.

Example : Determine size of man power for PRODUCT XXX
Total man hours : 10
Total man power : Total man hours/ cycle time : 10/0.8 : 12.5 man power
Man power requred to produce product xxx with capacity 10u/day : 13 person.

Cycle time must use as mesurement tool for process control set up.