Assembly-Line Balancing Means Assigning All Necessary Tasks to a Series

question 58

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Assembly-line balancing means assigning all necessary tasks to a series of workstations so that each workstation has no more than can be done in the workstation cycle time and so that idle time across all workstations is minimized.

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The wage rate at which the quantity of labor supplied by workers equals the quantity of labor demanded by employers, resulting in a stable labor market.

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