A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations to achieve an hourly output rate of 33 units.

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A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations to achieve an hourly output rate of 33 units.
Assume that the shop works 60 minutes per hour (i.e., no breaks).
a. Assign the tasks shown in the following precedence network (times are on the nodes and are in minutes) to workstations using tire folio1wing heuristic rules: (i) “Assign the task with the most followers.” (ii) Tiebreaker: “Assign the task with the longest time.”
b. What is the efficiency'?

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Operations Management

ISBN: 978-0071091428

4th Canadian edition

Authors: William J Stevenson, Mehran Hojati

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