1. A product’s assembly line has 5 steps arranged in 3 workstations. If the total time for all steps is 4.2 minutes and each workstation’s cycle time is 1.7 minutes. What is the efficiency of this assembly line?
a. 0.625
b. 0.824
c. 0.941
d. 0.354
e. Not enough information given to calculate this
2. During one week of production a plant produced 97 units of a product. Its historic highest or best utilization recorded was 135 units per week. What is this plant’s capacity utilization rate?
a. 56.7%
b. 139%
c. 71.8%
d. 100%
e. 39.2%