When Balancing an Assembly Line, Which of the Following Is

question 6

Multiple Choice

When balancing an assembly line, which of the following is not a way to reduce the longest task time below the required workstation cycle time?

• A) Upgrade the equipment.
• B) Assign a roaming helper to support the line.
• C) Split the task between two workstations.
• D) Speed up the assembly-line transfer mechanism.
• E) Use a more skilled worker.

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Definitions:

Arrival Population

The group of entities, such as people or items, arriving at a service system or facility, ready to be processed or serviced.

Behavior Of Arrivals

Refers to the pattern or distribution of instances or entities arriving at a system or service point, important in queueing theory and operations management.

Distribution Of Arrivals

The statistical distribution that shows how often or at what intervals entities arrive at a system or facility.

M/M/1 Model

A basic queueing model that assumes a single server, Poisson process arrivals, and exponential service times, used to analyze wait times and queue lengths.