QUESTION 2 (20 MARKS)

a. Millennium Computing Bhd. wants to establish an assembly line for producing a new product. The tasks, task times and immediate predecessors for the tasks are as follows:

Task	Time (sec)	Immediate predecessors
A	12	-
B	15	A
C	8	A
D	5	B,C
E	20	D

Millennium Computing Bhd.s goal is to produce 180 products per hour.

1. Draw the above layout using the immediate predecessors given.

(2 marks)

2. Calculate the cycle time.

(3 marks)

iii. Determine the theoretical minimum for the number of workstations that Millennium Computing Bhd. can achieve in this assembly line.

(2 marks)

iv. Can the theoretical minimum actually be reached when workstations are assigned? Modify the tasks to workstations.

(4 marks)