An assembly line currently has five workstations, and the time required for each is shown below.

An assembly line with $5$ workstations. Station $1,53$ seconds. Station $2,72$ seconds. Station $3,32$ seconds. Station $4,42$ seconds. Station $5,44$ seconds.

What is the efficiency of the current process? Hint: Identify the bottleneck workstation.

Customer demand is $80$ units per hour. What is the hourly production rate of the current process?

What does the takt time need to be able to meet demand?