Question: The learning curve phenomenon is one of the important reasons why an assembly line with It stations is capable of outproducing n single workstations, where each single station does the entire work content of the job. Consider the case of a product whose theoretical work content time for the first unit is 21.) min. The effect of an 84% learning rate is to be compared for two cases: 10 single station manual cells, each doing the entire assembly task, and one perfectly balanced 10-station manual assembly line, where each station does 2.0 min of the total work content. For the 1000th unit produced, determine the rate of production of:
(a) the 10 single workstations and
(b) the 10-station assembly line.