Tweaking the Initial Assembly$-$Line Design From past experience, the engineering manager has found that the initial assembly line design supplied by the engineers often needs to be tweaked. Consider the following questions that the engineering manager is considering:

What is the daily capacity of the assembly line designed by the engineers? Assume that the assembly line has a computer at every position when it is started at the beginning of the day.

The line designed by the engineers is running at maximum capacity. What is the efficiency of the line relative to its use of labor? Assume that the supporter is not included in efficiency calculations.

How should the line be redesigned to operate at the initial $250$ units per day target, assuming that no overtime will be used? What is the efficiency of your new design relative to its use of labor?

What about running the line at $300$ units per day? If overtime were used with the engineers' initial design, how much time would the line need to be run each day?

Design an assembly line that can produce $300$ units per day without using overtime $($specify the tasks at each position in the line as done in Exhibit $8\mathrm{.}16)?$

What other issues might the manager consider when bringing the new assembly line up to speed?

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