An assembly line with 20 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 20 activities is 50 minutes. The longest activity takes 2.4 minutes and the shortest takes 0.9 minute. The line will operate for 300 minutes per day.

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An assembly line with 20 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 20 activities is 50 minutes. The longest activity takes 2.4 minutes and the shortest takes 0.9 minute. The line will operate for 300 minutes per day.

  1. What are the maximum and minimum cycle times? Round your answers to one decimal place.

    Maximum cycle time:    minutes

    Minimum cycle time:    minutes

  2. How much daily output will be achieved by each of those cycle times? Round your answers to the nearest whole number.

    Daily output achieved by maximum cycle time:   units/day

    Daily output achieved by minimum cycle time:   units/day

 

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