In Assembly-Line Balancing, Cycle Time (The Ratio of Available Production

question 9

Multiple Choice

In assembly-line balancing, cycle time (the ratio of available production time to scheduled production) is the:

• A) minimum time that a product is allowed at each workstation.
• B) maximum time that a product is allowed at each workstation.
• C) inverse of the minimum number of workstations needed.
• D) sum of all the task times divided by the maximum number of workstations.
• E) equivalent of the maximum task time among all tasks.

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