A company has developed an assembly line for producing a new Barby doll. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of this product. These tasks must be completed in the order as given in the following table. There is no setup time involved.
Task Time (minutes)
A 5
B 3
C 8
D 5
E 6
F 1
A) Suppose six workers are hired to do these tasks, one worker for each task. What will be the worker utilization? (Assume that system is fully in progress)
B) How would you improve worker utilization without compromising the process capacity? What will be the new worker utilization?