A Production Line Is to Be Designed for a Job

question 137

Multiple Choice

A production line is to be designed for a job with four tasks. The task times are 2.4 minutes, 1.4 minutes, 0.9 minutes, and 1.7 minutes. After line balancing, the largest possible assigned cycle time is ________ and the smallest possible assigned cycle time is ________ minutes.

• A) 1.8; 1.4
• B) 1.6; 0.9
• C) 6.4; 2.4
• D) 2.4; 0.9
• E) none of these

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Definitions:

Budget Variance

The difference between the budgeted or planned amount of expense or revenue, and the actual amount incurred or received.

Fixed Overhead Budget Variance

The variance between the budgeted and the actual incurred fixed overhead expenses.

Manufacturing Overhead Applied

The portion of estimated manufacturing overhead cost that is assigned to each unit of production based on a predetermined rate.

Labor-Hour

A labor-hour represents an hour of work performed by an employee, typically used as a basis for allocating labor costs or measuring productivity.