As Patrick Sportwear Co. completes plans for its new assembly line of Liverpool, it identifies 30 different tasks in the production process. VP of Operations Kevin Keegan now faces the job of balancing the line. He lists precedences and provides time estimates for each step based on work-sampling techniques. His goal is to produce 1.000 football shoes per standard 35-hour workweek. Task B1 K4 K9 J1 B||||= .. C2 J2 J3 D5 G4 G5 F3 F4 F7 E1 F9 Time (sec) 50 24 27 66 12 22 3 6 79 29 32 92 21 20 126 Immediate Predecessors B1 B1 B1 B1 C2 K4, K9 K9, J1 J2 J3 C2 G4, K4 Task b) Explore if this balance could be improved E2 A4 E3 D6 D7 C1 D8 D9 C3 B3 B5 A1 B7 A2 A3 Time (sec) 18 10 c) Discuss if is it possible to improve this balance to 100%? 109 53 72 78 78 37 40 72 108 52 18 72 114 Immediate Predecessors G5, F3 E1 F3 F4 F9, E2, E3, K9 F7, A4 E3, D6 D6, A4 F9, D7 D7, D8, D9, C1 a) Balance this operation using the shortest operation time rule and compute the efficiency of the line. C1 B5 A1, B3, C3 B5 B7, A1, A2, D5