A company has received a contract for producing 20.000 units of a certain product, delivered in weekly quantities of the same order. This delivery should be spread over six months. The company works 250 days per year and the machines run 40 hours a week (5 x 8 h).

The next table describes the tasks, their immediate predecessors and the time needed for each task.

Task	Time needed (in seconds)	Immediate predecessors
A	150	None
B	120	A
C	150	B
D	30	A
E	100	D
F	40	C,E
G	30	E
H	100	F,G

Making use of the principle of dynamic programming, design a production line, compute the cycle time and also give the efficiency of this production line.

The customer asks to push up the production with 10%. How do you react? What is your opinion? Be complete in your answer.