The importance of time in business is gradually becoming more important due to many factors, one of these factors is product costing. Product cost is a combination of different variables; one of these variables is the production time. This means well-managed companies need to know how much time is required to accomplish a given amount of work. This will help in building trust with their clients by meeting the promising deadlines. However, by measuring and analyzing the total task time, there will be a big amount of the task time considered as waste as illustrated in Figure 1: Total Task Time. Total excess time occurs when there is either waste activities related to poor design of product, activities related to poor work layout, poor process design, or due to human factors. Therefore, the concept of lean manufacturing and process improvement is usually adapted in such companies.
Companies are trying to improve their performance and decrease the production time in order to achieve a higher level of production throughput. For instance, increasing production output while maintaining the input time constant is the goal that companies are trying to achieve to maximize their economic performance measures.
Figure 1: Total Task Time
2. Objective
The seminar objective is to provide the student with knowledge regarding motion and time study and to describe techniques and procedures of motion and time study. To introduce several topics in motion and time study including workstation design, job analysis, and the techniques of setting time standards. To provide a clear description of operational data and to provide solutions that deal with the bottleneck and lean manufacturing system.
3. Topics to be presented by students
Students should select one of the following topics related to motion and time standards during manufacturing. make an analysis of literature related and produce a full report along with a presentation about the selected topic.
I. Work measurement techniques.
II.
Assembly line balancing and bottleneck.
III. Motion analysis and relationship to production time.
4. Language
English
- Lehrende(r): Emad Alzubi
- Lehrende(r): Ahmed Kassem