Five products are produced on the same assembly line.
Product weekly demand bottleneck station processing time
A 1000 45
B 500 40
C 750 45
D 500 50
E 250 55
The table contains weekly demand for each product and the time required by workstation 6 per unit. Workstation 6 is more heavily loaded than the other workstations. Find a repeating cycle for entering product onto the mixed model line. The demand rate is constant and continuous for each product and management desires to avoid accumulating excess or shortage inventory of more than two units of any product at any time. Management would like to operate the line with the largest average production rate possible.