As part of a major plant renovation project, the industrial engineering department has been asked to balance

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As part of a major plant renovation project, the industrial engineering department has been asked to balance a revised assembly operation to achieve an output rate of240 units per eight- hour day. Task times and precedence relationships are as follows:
As part of a major plant renovation project, the industrial

Do each of the following:
a. Draw the precedence network.
b. Determine tire required cycle time.
c. Determine the minimum number of workstations needed.
d. Assign the tasks to workstations using the heuristic rule €œAssign the task with the most followers.€ Use the heuristic rule €œAssign the task with the longest time€ as a tiebreaker, If a tie still exists, choose randomly,
e. Calculate the percentage idle time for the assignments in part d.

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Operations Management

ISBN: 978-0071091428

4th Canadian edition

Authors: William J Stevenson, Mehran Hojati

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