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What does Line Balancing mean?

The process of assigning tasks to workstations in such a way that the idle time is minimized and the production line is balanced.

Line Balancing in a sentence
The industrial engineer performed line balancing to ensure workload was evenly distributed among all workstations.

Line Balancing in German, French, Spanish and Italian

German
Fließbandabstimmung
also Takt Abstimmung

Abstimmung der Arbeitsinhalte an einem Fließband zur Vermeidung von Leerlauf.

French
Équilibrage de chaîne

Répartition égale de la charge de travail entre les postes d'assemblage.

Spanish
Balanceo de línea

Igualación de los tiempos de trabajo en cada estación de la línea.

Italian
Bilanciamento della linea

Distribuzione uniforme delle attività lungo la catena di montaggio.

Common phrases with Line Balancing

  • evenly distributed line balancing
  • workstations line balancing
  • industrial engineer line balancing

Synonyms and opposites for Line Balancing

  • Synonym Workload balancing

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