A Company Is Trying to Balance Production Between 3 Workstations

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Essay

A company is trying to balance production between 3 workstations on an assembly line. Currently there are 5 tasks that need to be performed. These tasks, ABCDE, have required times of 2 minutes, 4 minutes, 1 minutes, 3 minutes, and 10 minutes, respectively. The assembly line needs to produce 40 units per day to meet demand and can work for up to 8 hours each day.
(a) What is the required cycle time?
(b) What is the theoretical minimum # of workstations?
(c) Assign the tasks according to the shortest task time heuristic.

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Definitions:

Specific Identification Method

An inventory valuation method that tracks the cost of specific items sold and remaining inventory.

Manipulation Of Profits

The unethical or illegal adjustment of a company's financial records in order to present an inaccurately positive picture of its financial performance.

Expenses Against Revenues

The matching principle in accounting that involves recording expenses in the period in which they helped to generate revenues.

LIFO Perpetual

A perpetual inventory system that uses the Last-In, First-Out method to account for inventory costs, where the most recently acquired items are considered sold first.