Given the following table, please answer the questions.

Helpful formulas:

Ideal stuff = Cycle time/Takt time

Takt time = (net time available for production)/customer demand

Cycle time = total time required to complete the product from start to finish

3 Operation Number Operation Steps Time (s) 1 1 to 8 346 2 9 to 11 185 3 12 to 13 120 4 14 to 20 299 5 21 to 23 89 6 24 to 30 351 7 31 to 34 254 8 35 to 37 123 9 38 to 40 61 Cycle time 1828 The production manager has set the goal to produce 500 robots in an 8- hour workday? (Hint: Tak] Time). How many operators should be hired to meet that goal? How many operators should be assigned to each operation? If only 10 operators could be hired, what would be the best production line design to maximize the production in an 8-hour workday? (Define the workstations; what operations should be assigned to each work station?). The workstations cannot share an operator