An assembly line with 20 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 20 activities is 68 minutes. The longest activity takes 6.4 minutes and the shortest takes 1.2 minute. The line will operate for 480 minutes per day.
A. What are the maximum and minimum cycle times?
B. How much daily output will be achieved by each of those cycle times? Suppose the line is balanced using 20 workstations and a finished product can be produced every 6.4 minutes.
C. What is the production in units per day?
D. What is the assembly line efficiency?