Simulation-based Optimization of Pants Production Line Balancing Using the ECRS Method

Abstract

Manufacturing as the leading industry in our country, has promoted the growth and development of the national economy, but also
for the people of our country It provides many job opportunities. As a labor-intensive industry, the low balance rate of the production line is
an important factor causing the low production efficiency. In order to solve the problems such as unreasonable process allocation and long
bottleneck process time in garment production line, ECRS method was improved and Flexsim software was used to optimize and simulate
the process of assembly line to improve the balance rate of production line. Taking the production line of A-type casual pants of Y Company
as the research object, improved ECRS method was used to optimize and balance the process of the production line, and Flexsim software
was used to simulate the optimized production line. The results show that the optimized production line preparation efficiency η is increased
from 65.59% to 90.22%, and the production efficiency is increased by 36.55%.