Line Balancing in Apparel Production Line Balancing Line Balancing is leveling the workload across all processes in a cell or value stream to remove bottlenecks and excess capacity. A constraint slows the process down and results if waiting for downstream operations and excess capacity results in waiting and absorption of fixed costs. Line Balancing in apparel industry It is the allocation of sewing machine , according to style and design of the garments. It depends on what types of garments we have to produce. It is done to increasing productivity . When you consider mass production, garments are produced in lines or set of machines instead of single machine. A line may be assembly line, modular line or section, a line set with online finishing and packing. A line includes multiple work stations with varied work contents. Production per hour is varied depending on work content (standard minutes of particular task/operation), allocation of total manpower to a particu