An industrial food processor needs to design a product layout for a new line of frozen pizza. The company plans to use this new production line eight hours a day in order to meet projected demand of 1,200 pizzas per day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of frozen pizza.
Task Immediate Precedecessers Task Duration (Seconds)
A NONE 10
B A 14
C B 20
D B 16
E C,D 12
F E 8
a. Calculate the cycle time of the production line, in seconds.
b. Assign the tasks to workstations using the decision rule of Longest Processing Time (LPT).
c. Calculate the efficiency of this production line.