Abstract:
RMG industry sustains on customer satisfaction directly or indirectly. Customer
satisfaction comes from value added activities which mainly focus on low cost, quality & on
time delivery. For confirming the value added activities, an industry must give concern to
decrease the waiting time, process bottleneck and above all, increasing the productivity. Line
balancing is an effective technique to improve the productivity. This technique is already applied
in different industry and proved its effectiveness to improve the productivity.
In this work, line balancing is considered in an RMG industry at a sewing line as a
sample project. At the begging of the project, existing data is collected through time study and
then, analyze the data & find out the opportunity. Using the line balancing technique, production
line refers to balance through the balance distribution of work among the workstations. In
reference production line, productivity may possible to increase almost 38 %. Existing problems
are identified and refer to solve considering the sequence of operation.
This research report provides guideline for the garments manufacturer to improve their
industrial productivity and capacity by implementing the productivity improvement techniques
like line balancing technique.
