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Sanjeewa Dehiwalage
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Industrial Engineering

Line Balancing

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Line Balancing

Balance efficiency across a sewing line given total SMV, operations and the bottleneck operation.

Formula: Balance efficiency (%) = total SMV ÷ (operations × bottleneck SMV) × 100.

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