Assignment:
A paced assembly line has been devised to manufacture calculators, as the following data show:
A. What is the maximum hourly output rate from this line? (Hint?: The line can only go as fast as its slowest workstation.)
The maximum hourly output rate is ___calculators per hour.
b. What cycle time corresponds to this maximum output rate?
c. If a worker is at each station and the line operates at this maximum output rate, how much idle time is lost during each 10-hour shift?
d. What is the line's efficiency?