A manufacturing facility is using a unidirectional loop$/$in one of its production departments.

An automated arm moves the item from the pickup$/$delivery station to the next station going

through all stations in the loop and then removes it back to pickup$/$delivery station when all

processing is done. You are requested to assess a given assignment of machines to these

stations with respect to the total flow distance. The assignment is given as follows:

The amount of flow between the different machines is given in the following table:

Assuming the distance between each station is $2$ meters, the total flow distance for the given

assignment is:

a$)1500$ m

b$)1480$ m

c$)1388$ m

d$)1598$ m

e$)1410$ m