A manufacturing company is designing an assembly line to produce its main product. The line should be able to produce 60 units per hour. The following data in give the necessary information.
TABLE 10-16 Task Information for Problem 12
|
Task
|
Immediate Predecessor
|
Task Time(sec)
|
|
A
|
None
|
35
|
|
B
|
A
|
50
|
|
C
|
A
|
21
|
|
D
|
B
|
38
|
|
E
|
C
|
25
|
|
F
|
D,E
|
58
|
|
G
|
F
|
15
|
(a) Which task is the bottleneck?
(b) Draw a precedence diagram for the above information.
(c) Compute the cycle time with a desired output of 60 units per hour.