Customizing a line balancing report

Line balancing is a method to improve the throughput of assembly lines while reducing manpower requirements and costs. Line balancing addresses the problem of assigning operations to work stations along an assembly line in such a way that the assignment be optimized in some sense. You perform line balancing in Manufacturing Process Planner.

During the line balancing planning activities, you can create a variety of reports.

Line balancing uses the Teamcenter report framework to generate reports. The reports are created in the Microsoft Excel XML format and saved in datasets. By default, the dataset is attached to the scope of the view from which the report is launched. There is a defined default report definition and style sheet associated with each report type. These are defined in preferences.

Report	Preference for report definition ID	Preference for style sheet name
Constraints Consistency Check	MELBConstraints ConsistencyReportID	MELBConstraintsConsistency Stylesheet
Constraints Violation Check	MELBConstraints ViolationReportID	MELBConstraintsViolation Stylesheet
Balancing Overview	MELBBalancing OverviewReportID	MELBBalancingOverview Stylesheet
Line Detail	MELBLine DetailReportID	MELBLineDetailStylesheet

You can create a new report definition in the Report Builder application and modify the report preference to point to that new definition. You can modify the report definition to change parameters or add style sheets.

Related Topics

• Generate line balancing reports