Business, 25.02.2020 17:55 isabeljackson562

A producer of inkjet printers is planning to add a new line of printers, and you have been asked to balance the process, given the following task times and precedence relationships. Assume that cycle time is to be the minimum possible.

Task Length
(minutes) Immediate
Predecessor
a 0.2 -
b 0.4 a
c 0.3 -
d 1.3 b, c
e 0.1 -
f 0.8 e
g 0.3 d, f
h 1.2 g

a. Do each of the following:

(2) Assign tasks to stations in order of greatest number of following tasks.

Task Following Tasks
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h

(3)
Determine the percentage of idle time. (Round your intermediate calculations to 1 decimal place and final answer to 2 decimal places. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)

Percentage of idle time %

(4)
Compute the rate of output in printers per day that could be expected for this line assuming a 470-minute working day. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

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