Excelsior Technologies (not a real company) designs layouts for a variety of companies. Damien Motors, a fictional German automobile company, is planning to open an assembly line plant in Hamburg for its new car Sting Ray-II. The tasks, their precedence relationships, and the task times are given in the following table. In addition, Damien Motors has determined that its productive daily operating time is 8 hours and requires 40 units of the new model to be assembled per day:

Given this information:

1. Determine the cycle time.

2. Draw a precedence diagram that shows the precedence relationships among tasks for this assembly operation.

3. What is minimum number of workstations required to balance this assembly line?

4. Assign tasks to workstations using the most following tasks rule.

5. Assign tasks to workstations using the ranked positional weight rule.

6. Compute the balance efficiency for both rules.

7. Which rule achieves a better balance?

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Immediate Task Time Tasks Predecessor (in minutes) NONE 3 C, E G 3 G, F 8 54 Total LO