Question: Operations No. Predecessors Time (sec.) Operations No. Predeccors Time (sec.) 1 - 30 9 5, 6 40 2 1 60 10 7 50 3 2

Operations No. Predecessors Time (sec.) Operations No. Predeccors Time (sec.)
1 - 30 9 5, 6 40
2 1 60 10 7 50
3 2 40 11 7, 8 30
4 2 50 12 9 20
5 3 70 13 11 60
6 2 30 14 10, 12 40
7 4 50 15 13,14 30
8 4 20

An industrial equipment will be manufactured on an assembly line. The annual demand is 90.000 units. The company operates 225 days in a year. There are two shifts of 8 hours in a day. In each shift, there are a short break of 10 minutes and a meal break of 40 minutes.

The manager desires to set the capacity utilization rate as 85 % when determining the cycle time of the assembly line. The information about the assembly process of the product is given in the table above

Determine the structure of the assembly line by using the COMSOAL Method with the set of random numbers specifically given for you on Google Classroom and compute the balance of the line. Use the proper set of random numbers starting from the left hand side.

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