The Florida Appliance Company is installing an assembly line to produce vacuum cleaners, and you, as an operations manager, are responsible for balancing the line. The tasks to be performed are listed below, along with their task times in seconds and immediate predecessors.

a. Draw the precedence diagram for this assembly line.

b. The company is planning to operate two shifts per day, eight hours per shift. If the desired output rate of the line is 480 units per day, what is the cycle time?

c. Balance the assembly line using the longest task time first processing rule.

d. What is the efficiency of your balance?

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Task A B D E F G H Time (sec) 888482828 60 40 30 20 40 60 70 50 20 60 Immediate Predecessor(s) A B B B C D F, G E H, I