A company is designing an assembly line for a new line of lamps. It has identified 8
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A company is designing an assembly line for a new line of lamps. It has identified 8 tasks and arranged them as in the following figure. The number in each circle represents the time to complete the task in minutes. Demand for the product is expected to be 20,000 units a year. The new assembly line is scheduled to work 8 hour days, 5 day weeks and 50 weeks per year.
(a) What is the cycle time necessary to achieve the desired rate of production?
(b) Using the minimum number of possible workstations, assign tasks to balance the line.
(c) What is the efficiency and idle time of the line?
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