What do you understand by “line balancing”? What happens if balance doesn’t exist?

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Line Balancing - Line: an assembly line composed of various work stations, at which particular operations are performed. - To work efficiently, with no work pile-ups between stations, the line must be balanced, for example work must get through each workstation in roughly similar amount of time. Goals: 1. To meet production goals, 2. Maximize output. General Approaches to Line Balancing Technique 1. Estimating number of operators for a specific number of stations, 2. Work element sharing: grouping “activities” each work elements into “stations” or jobs performed by a single person (occasionally multiple people work in concert at a single station or machine) Posted by Diana | Posted Date: 2/12/2013 7:10:18 AM

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