How to Calculate Efficiency of a Production Line?

To know the performance of a garment factory and for the comparative study of the sewing line performance, we measure production line efficiency. So, like individual operator efficiency, measuring the efficiency of a production line is important for a factory. 

Daily line efficiency shows line performance.

Production Line Efficiency Calculation - Information required

To calculate the efficiency of a line for a day, you will need the following data (information) from the line supervisor or line recorder.

1. Number of operators – How many operators worked in the line in a day.

2. Working hours (Regular and overtime hours) – how many hours each of the operators worked or how many hours the line ran in a day

3. Production in pieces – How many pieces are produced or total line output at the end of the day

4. Garment SAM – What is the exact standard minute of the style (garment)

Once you have the above data you have to calculate the following using the above information -

 a. Total minutes produced by the line: 
To calculate total produced minutes, multiply production pieces by garment SAM

 b. Total minutes attended by all operators in the line: 
Multiply the number of operators by daily working hours and convert total hours into total minutes (multiplying by 60).

Now, calculate line efficiency using the following formula:

Line efficiency (in percentage) = (Total minutes produced by the line *100) /(Total minutes attended by all operators)

An example - Calculating Production Line Efficiency

Let's calculate the line efficiency of one production line.

48 operators worked in a line for 8 hours. They produced 160 garments and the SAM of the garment (style) is 44.25 minutes.

Here,
Total minutes produced = (160 x 44.25) = 7080 minutes
Total minutes attended = (48 operator x 8 hours x 60) = 23040 minutes
Effiicnecy% = (7080 x100)/23040 % = 30.729%

For more examples, refer to the following table. The data calculation formula has been given on the header row of the table.

No. of
Operator
(A)
Working
hours
(B)
line output
(production)
(C)
Garment
SAM
(D)


Total
minutes
attended
(E=A*B*60)
Total Minute
 produced
(F=C*D)
Line
Efficiency (%)
(F/E*100)
48
8
160
44.25
23040
7080
30.73
48
11
240
44.25
31680
10620
33.52
34
8
300
25
16320
7500
45.96
35
11
400
25
23100
10000
43.29
35
11
329
25
23100
8225
35.61
34
8
230
25
16320
5750
35.23
34
8
200
35
16320
7000
42.89
35
11
311
35
23100
10885
47.12
34
11
340
35
22440
11900
53.03

Here is one Video Guide for calculating overall efficiency.



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