Balanced Work

Balancing Work Distribution

1.  From the main project panel, select the Implementation tab and then click on the “Balanced Work Distribution” button.

2. Select an Activity that will be balanced from the “All Activities” list box.

3. Select the “<<” button to add the Activity to the list of Activities to Balance.

4. Repeat steps 2-3 until all the Activities to balance are added.

5. The number of seconds allocated to performing the tasks in the “Activities to Balance” list in a day should be entered into the “Allocated Seconds” box.

6. Enter the number of times each task has to be repeated a day into the “Allocated Quantity” field.

7. Fill in the desired head counts for each scenario.



If the columns in the Balancing box are not wide enough, you can make them bigger by dragging the edge of the column, at the top of the box.

8. Move the input focus from the headcount field (e.g. click on the Activities to Balance field).  The Distribution tool will calculate which operators (numbered from 1 to Head Count) should do which steps to balance the work to be done in the operation.

The Theoretical Cycle Time is what the cycle time would be if the production could be evenly divided between all the operators. The Actual Cycle Time is the time it takes the operator with the biggest load to finish his/her work on a single unit of output.

Note: If a group of steps can only be done as a unit, and the work balancing tool splits them across multiple operators, you can go in and move steps by hand. When doing this, you will not be able to enter operator numbers that don’t make sense. For example, you won’t be able to assign a step to operator 3, between operator 1 and operator 2.

·    Chose a scenario that you want to generate a report for.

·    Chose an operator whose steps will be in the report.

·    Click “View Report” to display the report in your web browser (where it can be printed) or “Generate File” to save it to a spreadsheet file.

·    If you are printing the report will appear in your web browser, print the report from your browser. Use the print function of you browser to print. Typically, this can be done by selecting File | Print from the menu. If you are exporting to a file, a dialog box will appear. Enter the name of the file you want to export the file to, and then click the “Save” button.