Manual Balance Tutorial

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Tutorial Objective:

This tutorial section will show you how to create a manual line balance, and use the grouping and two sided balance features. Please use the sample scenario file Single Pumps.xml (located in the Help Directory of your CD, or available on the Proplanner website) for this tutorial.

 

 

Step 1:  Opening a scenario

 

 

I.Open the tutorial scenario file called “Single Pumps.xml”.  “File => Open Scenario”

 

II.For clearing the existing task station assignments, go to ‘Balancing Station View’ and then select Balance => Clear All Assignments.

 

 

 

Figure 20:  Clear all assignments
Figure 20:  Clear all assignments

 

 

 

III.Next, go to File => Properties and change Line Side to ‘Two Sided’.

 

 

Figure 21:  Change line side to two sided
Figure 21:  Change line side to two sided

 

 

 

Step 2:  Assigning Groups

 

 

I.Go to the ‘Task Grouping’ tab in the ‘Task Editor’. Highlight activities ‘40S-001’ and ‘40S-002’, right click and select ‘Add to Group…’.

 

 

 
Figure 22:  Add group
Figure 22:  Add group

 

 

II.Create a new task group ‘U-Cup’.

 

 

Figure 23:  New group named U-cup
Figure 23:  New group named U-cup

 

 

 

III.A new group by the name is added ‘U-Cup’ is added. 

 

 

 

Figure 24:  Grouped tasks
Figure 24:  Grouped tasks
 

 

  

Step 3:  Assigning line sides

 

 

I.Go to the ‘Task Sheet’ tab and assign ‘Line Side’. Change line side of ‘40S-001’ and ‘40S-002’ to R.

 

 

Figure 25:  Change line side for two tasks
Figure 25:  Change line side for two tasks

 

 

 

 

II.Similarly make the task ‘PP01S-5’ a right side task too.

               Note:  ‘E’ means ‘Either’ side and the task can be assigned the left or right side station.

 

 

Step 4:  Manually balancing

 

 

I.Go to ‘Balancing Station View’. (View = > Balancing Station View) and open the ‘Unassigned Processes’ window on the left.
       Hint: You can anchor the ‘Unassigned Processes’ by clicking on the top-right button and select it again to close it.

 

II.Assign a TAKT time (Edit => TAKT Time) and change it to 50, which essentially serve as a marker in the graph and for reporting purposes.

 

III.Select tasks 1 through 5 in the ‘Unassigned Processes’ list, right click and assign to station ‘BB001’. An error is shown that a right side activity cannot be assigned to the left hand side station. Note that all the stations are left hand side stations.

 

IV.Go to the station editor and change station ‘BB002’ to right side and go back to the ‘Balancing Station View’.

 

V.Now assign activity 5 & 6 (PP01S-5 & 40S-001) to station ‘BB002’. While doing so, task #7 (40S-002) will also be assigned to station ‘BB002’ as they belong to the same group.

 

VI.Complete assignment of the remaining tasks manually. You can generate the reports by clicking on the Report menu and selecting the appropriate menu.

 

Note: You could also automatically assign all of the tasks to stations and then manually change the assignments of selected tasks. Remember that if you move a task that is a member of a group, the entire group of tasks will be moved.