An assembly line with 18 activities is to be balanced the


An assembly line with 18 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 18 activities is 43 minutes. The longest activity takes 5.5 minutes and the shortest takes 2.5 minutes. The line will operate for 840 minutes a day.

Part A) What are the maximum and minimum cycle times? How much daily output is achieved by each of those cycle times?

Part B) Suppose the line is balanced by using 4 workstations and a finished product can be produced every 11 minutes.

What is the production rate in units per day? What is the assembly line efficiency?

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