Question: For the data given in Problem, determine by experimentation the minimum cycle time for a three-station balance.
Problem: A production facility assembles inexpensive telephones on a production line. The assembly requires 15 tasks with precedence relationships and activity times as shown in Figure. The activity times appear next to the node numbers in the network.
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a. Determine positional weights for each of the activities.
b. For a cycle time of 30 units, what is the minimum number of stations that could be achieved? Find the C 30 balance obtained using the ranked positional weight technique.
c. Is there a solution with the same number of stations you found in part (b) but with a lower cycle time? In particular, what appears to be the minimum cycle time that gives a balance with the same number of stations you found in part (b)?