Question: The Southeastern Sports Company produces golf clubs on an assembly line in its plant in Marietta, Georgia. The final assembly of the woods requires the eight operations given in the following table.
a. Draw a network to represent the assembly operation.
b. What is the minimum cycle time that can be considered? Determine the balance that results from the ranked positional weight technique for this cycle time.
c. By experimentation, determine the minimum cycle time that can be achieved with a three-station balance.