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An electronics plant is to produce 200 calculators at 85% efficiency by one line working for 8 hours. a) On the basis of the table given below, develop a balanced workstation configurations required to meet this production goal: precedence diagram, cycle time, theoretical and actual number of workstations. Determine the idle time for each station. __________________________________________________________ Task Time in minute Immediate predecessor task(s) ___________________________________________________________ 1 1.10 ----- 2 0.45 ----- 3 0.30 1 4 0.25 2, 3 5 1.70 4 6 0.50 5 7 0.15 5 8 0.05 6, 7 ____________________________________________________________ b) If the production has to be increased to 240 calculators to meet the increase in demand, redo the workstation configurations required to meet the new production goal: precedence diagram, cycle time, theoretical and actual number of workstations. Determine the idle time for each station.



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