Workload Balance
Industrial Engineering
Workload Balance
Distribution of work content across people or resources to minimize imbalance, waiting and overload.
Examples
- 01To improve workload balance, the team moves the label check from station 2, which was overloaded at 64 seconds, to station 4 with only 45 seconds.
- 02Workload balance is reviewed each time a new variant is added, because different models load stations differently.
- 03Better workload balance raises line output by 8 % without adding staff, because no station exceeds takt any more.