Line balancing

Concepto

Distributing the work of an assembly line over its stations so that each takes about the same time, close to the takt time, and no station is a bottleneck while others wait.

Descripción

Line balancing is the work of dividing the tasks of an assembly line among its stations so that each station has about the same workload. The goal is for every station to finish close to the takt time. If one station is slower, it holds up the others. If one is much faster, it waits and its capacity is wasted.

The usual steps are to list all tasks with their times and the order they must follow, calculate the takt time from demand, group tasks into stations without breaking the order and compare the load of each station with takt. A common measure is balance efficiency, the sum of task times divided by the number of stations times the longest station time. When models differ, mixed-model lines need a balance that works for the average and for the peak.

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Mantenido por Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Última actualización: 2026-11-11