How to Maintain Line Balancing in Garments

How to Maintain Line Balancing in Garments

Noor Ahmed Raaz
Specialized in Apparel Manufacturing
Owner and Editor in chief Textile Merchandising
Asst. Prof., Department of Textile Engineering
Atish Dipankar University of Science & Technology
Email: mnnabi@adust.edu.bd

Line Balancing: 

Line balancing is known as the systematic arrangement of machines and allocation of operations and helpers in a sewing line in such a way that smooth production can be possible with minimizing idle time. In the garments industry, Line balancing is known allocation of sewing machines, according to the pattern and design of the garment. The line arrangement of the sewing machine depends on what types of garments manufacture on the sewing floor. Proper line balancing in an apparel industry may increase productivity.

How to Maintain Line Balancing in Garments:

In the garments industry, the organized arrangement of machinery and allocation of operations is a very important task for a production manager. Therefore, this issue is also important for the merchandising department in the garment industry. On the sewing floor, line balancing should be maintained according to the sewing machine’s sequence. Proper line balancing in a sewing floor can be found with the help of work-study and SMV calculation. This line-balancing process can be changed according to the garment style and design. Here given an example of a basic T-shirt line balancing on the garment sewing floor.

Basic T-shirt

Importance of Line Balancing:

1. Determine systematic work procedure which is important for smooth production.

2. It determines the exact number of machines and operators in a line.

3. It helps to make an ideal work plan.

4. It reduces the cost of production.

5. It Helps to determine labor requirements in a line.

6. It helps to reduce production time.

7. It increases productivity.

8. It increases profitability.

9. It helps workers and helper to perform jobs in a simple manner.

10. It reduces faults in finished goods.

11. It makes it easy to achieve target production.

Noor Ahmed Raaz

Founder & Editor of Textile Merchandising. He is an Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Textile Engineering Department of a Reputed University in Bangladesh. He has performed numerous Research Regarding Textile Engineering. He has also received two times “Research & Development Fellowship” from the Ministry of Science & Technology in Bangladesh. For any further queries, please contact email at raju.uttara105@gmail.com or WhatsApp at +8801673758271.