On the basis of the precedence diagram and activity times given in Example 2, Boeing determines that there are 480 productive minutes of work available per day. Furthermore, the production schedule requires that 40 units of the wing component be completed as output from the assembly line each day. It now wants to group the tasks into workstations.

APPROACH c Following the three steps above, we compute the cycle time using Equation (9-2) and minimum number of workstations using Equation (9-3), and we assign tasks to workstations—in this case using the most following tasks heuristic.