1. A production line has four workstations and a 50- second cycle time. The total amount of actual task time across all four workstations is 170 seconds. What is the idle time? The percent idle time? The efficiency delay?
2. Polar Containers makes high-end coolers for camp- ing. The total task time needed to make a cooler is 360 seconds, with the longest individual task taking 50 sec- onds. Polar Containers would like to set up a line capable of producing 50 coolers per eight-hour day. What is the takt time? What is the maximum output per day? (Hint: Consider the longest individual task time.)