Ten basic tasks must be performed on an assembly line to manufacture a product. The demand for the product is 60 units per day and the line is available 8 hours per day. The time to perform each task and the immediate predecessors are shown below:

a) Draw a precedence diagram of this operation.
b) Compute the cycle time for this operation.
c) What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations?
d) Assign tasks to workstations to minimize idle time.
e) What is the idle time of the process?
f) What is the efficiency of the assembly line, given your answer in (d)?

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TASK A B с D E F G H 1 J TASK TIME (MINUTES) 3 5 2 3 2 4 3 4 3 5 IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS A A B, C с E D, F G H