Question: 1 (5 points) An assembly line with 30 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 30 activities is 50

1 (5 points) An assembly line with 30 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 30 activities is 50 minutes. The longest activity takes 3 minutes and the shortest takes 1 minute. The line will operate for 500 minutes per day.

  1. What are the maximum and minimum cycle times?
  2. How much daily output will be achieved by each of those cycle times?

Suppose the line is balanced using 15 workstations and a finished product can be produced every 4.5 minutes.

3. What is the production rate in units per day?

4. What is the assembly line efficiency?

5. Is this an efficient assembly line? Why or why not?

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