Automatic Line Balancing Using Optimized Cycle Time

You can balance an initial system's operations on the subsystems of a target system using the Optimized Cycle Time option.


Before you begin: Open a system structure comprising the following:
  • An initial system with operations
  • A target system with subsystems
See Also
About Automatic Line Balancing
Automatic Line Balancing Using Minimum Number of Systems
Automatic Line Balancing Using Pinned Operations
  1. Create a product flow on the subsystems of the target system. For more information, see Creating a Product Flow.


  2. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Process Gantt , and select the root system.


  3. From the Authoring section of the action bar, click Automatic Line Balancing .
    The Automatic Line Balancing dialog box appears.
  4. Select the initial system.
  5. Select the target system.
  6. In the dialog box, select the Optimized Cycle Time option.
  7. Optional: To remove all existing operations from the target system before balancing afresh, select the Delete balanced operations under target system option.

    Notes:
    • This option is useful to bypass unsolvable constraints for rebalancing.
    • This option is ignored if the initial system and target system are the same.

  8. Click Generate.
    The operations are balanced on the subsystems of the target system.