Simulation study of plant layout of wire harness industry.

This paper includes an approach that concentrate on optimizing the plant layout and assembly line. The simulation studies in the industries have helped through a wide range of applications. Wire harness is a set of cables grouped together leading towards little bit complexity in the assembly line at the plant. Discrete event simulation is a tool to model the complex and large manufacturing systems consisting of resources and products like robots, machines, operators, storage device, which are logically and physically linked. This study has been carried out at the small-scale electrical industry in tier-2 city Hubballi, Karnataka, India. The analysis was conducted using the simulation software and the attached results have been obtained from the simulation experiment. The bottlenecks and the loopholes were identified in the plant layout and the main aim was to improve the throughput and reduce the work in progress. These results were on the basis to propose a change in the existing plant layout and workstation station time reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]