Process Planning for Assemblies

Process planning in assembly will be done depending upon the level of the production. If it is low production requirement, all the resources will be gathered at one place including human resources and perform the work elements (or assembles) to complete the product. In medium and high production, assembly is usually performed on production lines.

For high production assembly lines process planning consists of allocating work elements to particular stations along the line, a procedure called line balancing technique, which minimises time and cost of the materials movement. The assembly line routes the work units to individual work stations, and the line balancing solution determines what assembly steps must be performed at each station. Process planning for individual parts, the tools, jigs and fixtures required to accomplish a given assembly work element must be divided, and the work place layout must be designed.