A small subassembly line assembles trim pieces for mounting on specially ordered new cars. This trim line involves only 13 work elements and must handle 20 cars per hour. Work-element data are as follows:

a. Draw a precedence diagram.
b. What cycle time (in minutes) results in the desired output rate?
c. What is the theoretical minimum number of stations?
d. Use the longest work element decision rule to balance the line and calculate the efficiency of your solution.

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IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR (s) None None None TIME (Sec) WORK ELEMENT 1.8 0.4 1.6 1.5 0.7 0.5 0.8 1.A 1.A 1.4 0.5 F G 1.0 I,K,L 0.8