Twelve tasks, with times and precedence requirements as shown in the following table, are to be assigned to workstations using a cycle time of 1.5 minutes. Heuristic rule €œAssign the task with the most followers€ will be tried. The tiebreaker will be the heuristic rule €œAssign the task with the longest time.€

a. Draw the precedence network.
b. Assign tasks to workstations.
c. Calculate the percentage idle time.

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Duration Follows (minutes) Task Duration Follows (minutes) Task Task Task .3 .2