Line Balancing

Arranging a production line for an even

flow of production from one work
station to the next, so that there are no
delay at any work station that will leave
the next work station with idle time.
Balancing may be achieved by
rearrangement of the workstations or
by adding machine and workers at
same of the station so that all operation
take about the same amount of time.

Line Balancing Procedure

1. Determine what task must be
performed to complete one unit
of finished product and the
sequence in which the task must
be performed. Draw the
precedence diagram

2. Estimate the task time

(amount of time it take a worker
to perform each task).

3. Determine Cycle Time : Cycle

time is the time between
successive unit coming off the
end of the line.

4. Assign each task to a work

station and balance the line.
5. Determine the number of
workstation required .
Nt = sum of task time
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cycle time