Question: The assembly line whose activities are shown below has 8 minute cycle time. Using these information a) Find minimum number of workstations? (2) b) Idle

The assembly line whose activities are shown below has 8 minute cycle time. Using these information

a) Find minimum number of workstations? (2)

b) Idle time at each of the work station. ( Show the table showing your calculations) (4)

c) Efficiency of your line balancing (4)

Apply heuristic rule : most number of followers. Although you are no required to show your precedence network diagram, you will need to draw one to do these calculations.

Task Duration ( min) Precedes Task
A 5
B 3 A
C 4 B
D 3 B
E 6 C
F 1 C
G 4 D,E,F
H 2 G

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