What is Line Balancing? Why Sewing Line Need to Balance? Importance of Line Balancing

What is Line Balancing?

Line balancing is the process of designing a smooth workflow across the entire line by allocating capacity in such a way that same amount of work is processed in every operation at any point in the day.

Line balancing levels the workload across all processes in the production system. Proper line balancing removes bottleneck, excess capacity as well as over and under capacity from the line.

Why Need Line Balancing?

✔ Smooth production flow

✔ Reducing bottleneck from line

✔ Proper utilization of man and machine hour

✔ Minimizing entire process time

✔ Minimize workstation in the entire system

✔ Reducing overtime

✔ Maximizing production without interruption

✔ Increasing line efficiency

Importance of Line Balancing

✔ Line balancing helps to allocate the right operator to the right process.

✔ It helps to identify and remove the bottleneck from the line.

✔ It helps to measure the required manpower and machine in the line.

✔ It tells us in which point has to take the operator in overtime to balance work for the next day.

✔ It helps us to increase line production and efficiency with minimum manpower and machine.