Team members:

Irmak Akça
Uygar Modalı
Karahan Kalay
Görkem Kocamaz
Atakan Çarkcı
Feyza Yıldız

IE 333
Lab Exercise 1 – Part 1
Fall 2021

You are the production team of MASA Company. The aim of the company is to produce planes
of first class. Your mission as a production team is to determine the cycle time for the manual
plane assembly operation, number of workstations and the task assignment to each worker. For
this purpose, you are expected to perform a time study for this task.

1. You should break down the task into 6 work elements (if your group has less than 6
members, then break down the task into # of members many work elements), describe
each work element and draw the precedence diagram. 

2. Determine the cycle time by charging only one operator for the whole process. For the
estimation, let every member of the team assemble the plane 2 times and calculate the
average of 12 repetitions (if your group has less than 6 members, then you should
perform the repetitions 2 * # of members times). Fill out Table 1 for this system.

The second part of the lab will be based on your findings in the first part, it will be held next
weeks. 

Name of the Team members:

Repetition 1-2: Irmak Akça
Repetition 3-4: Uygar Modalı
Repetition 5-6: Karahan Kalay
Repetition 7-8: Görkem Kocamaz
Repetition 9-10: Atakan Çarkcı
Repetition 11-12: Feyza Yıldız

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WE1 WE2 WE3 WE4 WE5 WE6

Assembling Assembling Assembling Assembling Assembling Putting wheel

the front part the wings the back part the tail (8) and sub-assembly (1) and fixers
of the body (9) (2&5) and of the body putting them 3 (SA3) with (4) to the sub-
and putting the putting them (3). on the back sub-assembly assembly 4.
windshield (7) on the sub- part of the 2 (SA2) by This
on the front assembly 1. body (3). This using middle constitutes the
part of the This constitutes the part of the final assembly
body. This constitutes the sub-assembly body (6). This (FA).
constitutes sub-assembly 3 (SA3). constitutes the
sub-assembly 2 (SA2). sub-assembly
1 (SA1). 4 (SA4).

9+7 = SA1 2+5+SA1 3=3 8+3 = SA3 SA3+6+SA2 1+4+SA4

= SA2 = SA4 = FA

Precedence Diagram: 

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Work Elements

Repetition # 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total

1 4.72 12.40 12.77 9.23 13.9 27.74 80.76

2 3.88 10.03 12.83 8.54 14.78 17.56 67.62

3 4.53 9.61 6.37 11.28 10.39 9.93 52.11

4 4.77 8.96 6.64 9.13 6.67 8.89 45.06

5 3.80 12.51 5.47 4.93 10.46 10.28 47.45

6 3.24 9.68 8.41 4.24 5.95 7.01 38.53

7 4.98 8.44 8.06 6.33 9.46 8.95 46.22

8 3.90 6.32 6.07 6.19 9.12 9.37 40.97

9 5.98 11.94 14.00 9.55 22.36 23.22 87.05

10 5.72 10.55 10.55 8.15 7.04 26.13 68.14

11 3.30 10.17 7.52 7.76 18.57 10.06 57.38

12 7.53 9.67 7.07 8.30 10.49 10.29 53.35

Average 4.70 10.02 8.81 7.80 11.60 14.12 57.05

Names of the Plane Parts

1. Wheel
2. Left wing
3. Back part of the body
4. Fixers
5. Right wing
6. Middle part of the body
7. Windshield
8. Tail
9. Front part of the body

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