Systems and methods for line balancing

A system comprising:

• one or more sensors;
• a data storage unit;
• and
• an engine coupled to the one or more sensors and the data storage unit, the engine configured to:
• receive one or more sensor streams from the one or more sensors;
• identify one or more actions that are performed on a product at a first station of a plurality of stations from video frames of the one or more sensor streams;
• identify one or more actions that are performed on the product at a second station of the plurality of stations from video frames of the one or more sensor streams;
• store the received sensor stream, the identified one or more actions performed at the first station, and the identified one or more actions performed on the product at the second station in one or more data structures on the data storage unit, wherein the identified one or more actions performed on the product at each of the first and second stations are mapped to the sensor stream;
• characterize each of the identified one or more actions performed on the product at each of the first and second stations to produce determined characterizations thereof including time taken to perform the one or more actions performed on the product at each of the first and second stations;
• and
• based on one or more of the determined characterizations, automatically produce a recommendation, either dynamically or post-facto, to move at least one of the identified one or more actions performed on the product at the second station to the first station to reduce cycle time.

One or more non-transitory computing device-readable storage mediums storing instructions executable by one or more engines to perform a method comprising:

• receiving one or more sensor streams with the one or more engines, wherein the one or more sensor streams include one or more video streams;
• utilizing the one or more engines to identify one or more actions from the one or more video streams that are performed on a product at a first station of a plurality of stations of a production line;
• utilizing the one or more engines to identify one or more actions from the one or more video streams that are performed on the product at a second station of the plurality of stations of the production line;
• storing in one or more data structures the received one or more sensor streams, the identified one or more actions performed on the product at the first station, and the identified one or more actions performed on the product at the second station, the identified one or more actions performed on the product at each of the first and second stations are mapped to the one or more sensor streams;
• utilizing the one or more engines to characterize each of the identified one or more actions performed on the product at each of the first and second stations to produce determined characterizations thereof, wherein the determined characterizations include time taken to perform each of the one or more actions performed on the product at each of the first and second stations;
• and
• based on one or more of the determined characterizations, automatically producing a recommendation, either dynamically or post-facto, with the one or more engines to move at least one of the identified one or more actions performed on the product at the second station to the first station to reduce cycle time of the production line.