Engle appliances has developed a new European-style convection oven that will be made on an assembly line.

Question:

Engle appliances has developed a new European-style convection oven that will be made on an assembly line. The schedule required 120 ovens in an 8-hour day. The assembly includes seven tasks. The table below indicates the performance time and the sequence requirements for each task.

Performance Time (minutes) Task must follow Task listed below Task A B. B. C,D G.

The cycle time per oven for this assembly operation is 4.0 minutes/oven
The precedence diagram is shown below. It shown that the actual number of work stations is 5 along with the specific tasks assigned to the work stations. WS = work station.