You have been asked to balance a flow shop assembly operation to achieve an output rate of 80 units over two eight-hour shifts - 16 hours. Task times and precedence relationships are shown in the table below:

Task	Predecessor	Time(minutes)
A	--	2
B	A	4
C		7
D	A,B	11
E	C	9
F	D	10
G	E,F	7
H	D,G	4

a. What is the cycle time in Minutes?

b. What is the theoretical number of stations?

c. Based on Longest Operating Time, were you able to group based on the theoretical number of stations?

d. What is station E assigned to?

e. Based on your grouping and following the longest operating time rule, is there and opportunity to balance the line more efficiently? If so, what is the new cycle time?