Apparel Manufacturing

Operator Line Balancing & Pitch Time Calculator

A line runs at the speed of its bottleneck, never at its average.

Line Current setup
min
no.
min
Shift & Target Planning basis
min
pcs
pcs

Pitch Time

— min

Average work content per operator station

Balance & Capacity

Line Efficiency
— %
Balance Efficiency
— %
Output at the Bottleneck
— pcs
Operators Needed for Target
— no.

Balance efficiency below about 80% means work content is badly distributed. Split the bottleneck before adding operators anywhere else.

Operator Line Balancing & Pitch Time Calculator — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.