MANUFACTURING WELDING LINE LAYOUT ANALYSIS IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE HUMAN RESOURCES INVOLVED

Abstract

This paper presents a case study on the use of Delmia Quest software in the simulation of a manual welding line. The goal of this paper is to better understand the line and its behaviour and to use the simulation software in order to optimize the line. To be able to optimize the welding line by adequate charge of the resources, the initial welding line layout has been used, where each operation had allocated a welder. Starting from the obtained results with the Delmia Quest software, solutions to reduce the number of welders from the welding line have been searched, without affecting the line productivity.

Keywords

• manufacturing layout
• Delmia Quest
• optimization
• manual welding process.
• manual welding process