An assembly line currently has five workstations and the time required for each is shown in the figure below.

a. What is the current cycle time?
b. What is the efficiency of the process?
c. Customer demand is 80 units per hour. What is the hourly production rate of the current process?
d. What does the cycle time need to be to be able to meet demand (what is the take time)?
e. What changes to the process are needed?

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1 50 sec 42 sec. 38 sec 32 sec 45 sec