Assignment task: Mr. John produces a special type of shoes on an assembly line. The process involves eight different tasks. Mr. John would like to increase productivity on this line and asked you for some assistance. He would like to balance the assembly line in order to reduce idle time and increase efficiency.
Q1. What information would you need in order to demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the assembly line?
Q2. Setup an example that will be used to demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the line.
Q3. Using the example that you setup in "b" above, demonstrate to Mr. John how to balance the line using the LOT heuristics.
Q4. Based on the example above, calculate the efficiency of the line.