A company that assembles high fidelity headphones needs to design an assembly line for one of its new products. The tasks needed and their relationships are shown in the following figure. To meet demand, the company must produce 80 headphones an hour.

a. What is the takt time?
b. Design the line by assigning the tasks to the workstations to balance the line using the longest operating time rule.
c. Redesign the assembly line by assigning the tasks to the workstations to balance the line using the most number of followers rule. If a tie is encountered, use the longest operating time rule to decide which task to enter.
d. Which approach to line balancing results in the most efficient assembly line?

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A 10 sec. B 18 sec. C 8 sec. LU E 12 sec. D 22 sec. F 20 sec. G 15 sec. H 16 sec.