The Montana Appliance Company is installing as assembly line to produce one of its small appliances, and you have been asked to balance the line. The tasks that are to be performed are listed below, along with the time required to perform each task and its immediate predecessor(s). The line is to produce 300 units in a full 8 hours of work.

Task	Time (seconds)	Predecessor(s)
A	51	None
B	22	A
C	28	A
D	32	A
E	39	A
F	20	B
G	20	C
H	16	D
I	12	E
J	42	F, G
K	44	H, I
L	20	J
M	20	K
N	12	I, M

Required:

Assign tasks to work stations by selecting the longest task that can be assigned at each opportunity.

Assign tasks to work stations by selecting the shortest task that can be assigned at each opportunity.

Assign task to work stations by incremental utilization heuristic

Compare the performance of the above three heuristics.

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

The network diagram for this CPM problem is drawn below The total time to produce 300 units is 8 hours that is 8 x 60 x 60 28800 seconds Total break t... View the full answer