An Assembly Line with 28 Activities Is to Be Balanced

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Essay

An assembly line with 28 activities is to be balanced.The total amount of time required for all 28 activities is 39 minutes.The longest activity is 2.2 minutes and the shortest is 0.8 minutes.The line will operate for 450 minutes per day.Using a cycle time of 60 seconds, determine an assembly line balance by selecting the longest task available.Compute the total idle time, and assembly line efficiency.

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Definitions:

Intra-entity Gross Profit

This refers to the gross profit earned by a company from sales made internally between its own divisions or subsidiary entities.

Cost of Goods Sold

The direct costs attributable to the production of the goods sold by a business, including materials and labor costs.

Equity Method

An accounting technique used to record investments in other companies, where the investment is initially recorded at cost and subsequently adjusted for the investor's share of the investee's profit or loss and dividends received.

Intra-entity Gross Profit

Profits resulting from transactions within the same entity, often requiring adjustment during the consolidation process for accurate financial reporting.