Line Balancing
Your product has the following tasks and predecessors.
Task Predecessor Average Time (sec)
A none 40
B none 60
C B 30
D C 30
E A, D 20
F E 30
A) Use a takt time of 120 seconds and follow the “largest eligible task” heuristic rule to assign these tasks to the work stations. Show which tasks are assigned to each workstation.
B) Compute the efficiency and percent idle time for the system.