03226nam a2200421 4500 20260817172248.0 250398 th eng .b10129868 AIT Thesis no. 1257 Jain, Yogesh Kumar Case study of a tractor assembly line and its balancing Bangkok : Asian Institute of Technology, 1977 74 p. Thesis ; no. 1257 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology,1977 The main purpose of this study was to redesign an assembly line for Massey-Ferguson MF-165 tractor assembly plant. Existing assembly line had 17 work stations with the cycle time of 50 minutes, i.e. 3000 seconds. The study comprised of: 1. Studying the existing process in the tractor assembly plant. 2. Breaking down the process into a group of work elements, each of which is associated with. work element time and precedence requirements. 3. Applying heuristic method to improve the balancing of the tractor assembly line. The data were collected continuously on the line and were not randomized. It was assumed th.at each type of the job requires the same type and level of skill of labourers, i.e. the workers have the ability to do the 0ther jobs. Using heuristic method of assembly line balancing, the minimum number of work stations needed for this assembly line should be only 13, for a cycle time of 3000 seconds. Assuming th.at the painting time can reduced, the cycle time could be reduced to 2860 seconds. In both cases for 13 work stations the number of operators can be reduced from 38 to 32. Reduction in cycle time from 3000 seconds to 2860 seconds should increase the production slightly. A computer program written for this study way used in step 3. It can also be applied in solving similar line balancing problems. Tractors Assembly-line balancing Singh, Gajendra, ChairPerson Cowell, P. A., Examination Committee Sharif, M. N., Examination Committee Government of Canada, Scholarship Donor Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. 1257 Full-Text http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B23433 .b10129868 mnait x 260210 2 951012 m a x 0 mnait mnait mnarc 20 40 Barcode : 30050003024576 CREATED : 1994-05-16 RECORD # : i10146775 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 Barcode : 30050003024584 CREATED : 1994-05-16 RECORD # : i10146787 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 Barcode : 30050160086715 CREATED : 2016-11-05 RECORD # : i12976027 LPATRON : 0 LCHKIN : - # RENEWALS : 0 # OVERDUE : 0 IUSE3 : 0 TOT CHKOUT : 0 TOT RENEW : 0 15423 15423 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-17 0 AIT Thesis no. 1257 30050003024576 2026-08-17 17:22:48 1 2026-08-17 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnait 2026-08-17 0 AIT Thesis no. 1257 30050003024584 2026-08-17 17:22:48 2 2026-08-17 20 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN mnarc 2026-08-17 0 AIT Thesis no. 1257 30050160086715 2026-08-17 17:22:48 2026-08-17 40