A producer of inkjet printers is planning to add a new line of printers, and you have been asked to balance the process, given the following task times and precedence relationships. Assume that cycle time is to be the minimum possible. a 0.2; b0.4; c 0.3; d 1.3; e 0.1; f 0.8; g 0.3; h 1.2 pathways a-b>d>g-h; c-d; e-f-g. >means there is another predecessor.

Determine the percentage of idle time.

Compute the rate of output in printers per day that could be expected for this line, assuming a 420-minute working day.

What is the shortest cycle time that will permit use of only two workstations?

Determine the percentage of idle time that would result if two stations were used and each station was loaded with the worktime shown in Part b(

What is the daily output under this arrangement a using the cycle time from Part b

Determine the output rate that would be associated with using the maximum cycle time.