Question: Hello can you answer this question ASAP and I will rate a thumbs up? Hall, a computer parts company, manufactures computer motherboards using an assembly

Hello can you answer this question ASAP and I will rate a thumbs up?Hello can you answer this question ASAP and I

Hall, a computer parts company, manufactures computer motherboards using an assembly line that consists of five workstations. Currently, the line has five workers, and each worker has a fixed assignment at one of the workstations. After each worker completes fastens a specific set of components onto the motherboard, he/she passes it to the downstream station on a rolling conveyor. The conveyor has space to allow a queue in front of each station. The bottleneck is the 1st workstation with an average processing time of 6 minutes for each motherboard. The raw processing time of the overall assembly line is 20 minutes. The current throughput of the line is 8 motherboards per hour and the current average WIP level is 20 motherboards. To improve the productivity of the line, the industrial engineers in Hall is considering undertaking an expansive cross-training program to allow for a flexible labor system. A. [10 points] What is the current average cycle time for this assembly line? How much time each motherboard spends on the average in queues (without being processed) before it gets out of this line? B. [10points] What is the utilization of Station 1? What can you say about the utilization of the following stations on the line? C. [15 points] Use internal benchmarking to evaluate the current performance of the assembly line. D. [10 points] If all five workers were fully trained and equipped to assemble the motherboards in parallel from start to finish at the current work pace of each operation, what would be throughput capacity of the system? What would be the average WIP in the system? Compare this performance with the best case for the current system and discuss

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