Question: A business process has a market demand of 35 jobs per day. A working day consists of 490 min, and the process activity times do not exhibit significant amounts of variation. A process management team would like to apply the line-balancing technique to assign activities to workstations. The activity times and the immediate predecessors of each activity are given in Table.
a. Use the longest activity rule as the primary rule to assign activities to stations.
b. Compare the efficiency of the line with the theoretical maximum efficiency. Is it possible to improve the line efficiency?
