Question: Problem # 1. Consider a two-station segment of an electronics assembly line. The first station consists of an automated machine, and the processing times for

Problem # 1. Consider a two-station segment of an

Problem # 1. Consider a two-station segment of an electronics assembly line. The first station consists of an automated machine, and the processing times for recent five orders are observed as follows: (6, 6, 5,5,6) (minutes). Because of the quality issue, 20 percent of the jobs drop out after the first station (i.e., only 80% of jobs go to the second station). The second station is a manual operation for the inspection staffed by a single operator, and the followings are five operation times (minutes) observed recently: (5, 6, 4, 4, 4). There is no quality issue at the second station. Jobs arrive to this segment of the first station at a rate of 10 jobs per hour. (a) Determine the best workstation in terms of processing time variation (Ce). (b) Compute the actual utilization of each workstation. It is assumed that the departure rate of the first station is equal to its arrival rate (10 jobs per hour)

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