Assessment of effectiveness of workstations in the selected production line

Abstract

Workstations are organizational units defined in a system, which deter-mine where and when production operations must be performed. Thus, they have de-fined loads, and operations performed thereon are evaluated based on the information to which places, where costs are formed, and to which types of activities they are ascribed. Workstations may include machines, people, production lines etc. The aim of the paper was to define effectiveness of operation of particular working stations which constitute a line for production of bread. The scope of the research covered the production line in a production establishment, namely a bakery. Based on the work schedule developed for particular workstations and documentation provided by the production site, a production capacity of the said line and its use and loading of particular workstations was defined. Analysis showed that the load of workstations was from 80 to 88%. A low level of variability of the load proves high mutual relations between particular workstations which are characteristic for continuous lines.

Keywords

• production capacity
• loading
• workstation
• production
• process