A sequential production line has various tasks assigned to each station. The total activity time required to perform the tasks at the stations are as follows:
Station 1: 4 minutes
Station 2: 5 minutes
Station 3: 5 minutes
Station 4: 3 minutes
Station 5: 8 minutes
Station 6: 5 minutes
This production line has capacity to produce how many units per hour? (In the long run, not counting the time that would be required for the first unit to pass through an empty system at startup.) (Provide 1 decimal in your answer.)
In the sequential production line described above, the bottleneck is at which station? (Provide number only.)
The efficiency of the line described above is: (Provide 1 decimal in your answer, no % sign.)
If the activities in this line could be re-balanced (rearranged among the six workstations, so that each workstation’s task time would be the same), the maximum hourly production rate that could be achieved would be: (Provide a whole number.)