A study of the effect of time variations for assembly line balancing in the clothing industry

• Published in: International journal of clothing science and technology Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 181 - 188
• Main Authors: Leung Patrick Hui, Chi, Fun Frency Ng, Sau
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford MCB UP Ltd 01.10.1999; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Assembly lines; Clothing industry; Manufacturing; Statistical analysis; Studies; Work stations; Hong Kong China; China; Clothing industry; Assembly lines

The problem of assembly line balancing is to assign different tasks to individual workstations for ensuring the sum of task times at any station not exceeding the station time. Standard minute time is generally used in the clothing industry as a predictor of sewing speed and production efficiency. I...