The ABC Corporation is designing its new assembly line. The line will produce 85 units per hour. The tasks, their times, and their immediate predecessors are shown in Table 10-19.

a) Which task is the bottleneck?

b) Compute the cycle time with a desired output of 85 units per hour.

c) Use a cycle time of 42 seconds/unit to assign tasks to workstations.

d) Compute the theoretical minimum number of stations. Did you end up using more stations than the theoretical minimum?

e) Compute the efficiency and balance delay of the line.

A B C D E F G H Table 10-19: Task Information for ABC Corporation Task Time (sec) Task Immediate Predecessor None A A B B,C F G 20 10 17 40 12 10 5 15