Description

Line of Balance (LOB) is a management control process for collecting, measuring and presenting facts relating to time all measured against a specific plan. It shows the process, status, background, timing and phasing of the project activities, thus providing management with measuring tools that help to Comparing actual progress with a formal objective plan and examining only the deviations from established plans, and gauging their degree of severity with respect to the remainder of the project. The LOB itself is a graphic device that enables a manager to see at a single glance which activities of an operation are "in balance" - i.e., whether those which should have been completed at the time of the review actually are completed and whether any activities scheduled for future completion are lagging behind schedule. CPM is continuously used in India for network analysis and finding critical path, Problem is taken as challenge to introduce and the new technique named linear scheduling which is proved better than CPM for repetitive construction works.