An insurance company uses the following tasks to process paperwork. Forty claims need to be processed in
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An insurance company uses the following tasks to process paperwork. Forty claims need to be processed in an eight-hour day.
a. What is the takt time?
b. What is the theoretical number of workstations.
c. Assign the tasks to the workstations to balance the line using the longest operating time rule.
d. What is the efficiency of the balanced line?
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4 min. 3 min C2 min 6 min. 2 min 5 min
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