Management wants to design an assembly line that will turn out 800 videotapes per day. There will be eight working hours in each day. The industrial engineering staff has assembled the information below

1. Determine the optimum cycle time (i.e., actual operating time/desired output).
2. What is the minimum number of stations needed?
3. Assign tasks to workstations.
4. What is the efficiency of this assembly line?

Task	Time (min.)	Immediate Follower
a	.2	b,d
b	.2	f
c	.4	b,e
d	.1	e
e	.3	f
f	.2	h
g	.1	h
h	.2	i
i	.6	none