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A Company Is Trying to Balance Production Between 3 Workstations

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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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