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ASU Home My ASU Colleges & Schools Map & Location ses Organizations Help QUESTION 37 As part of a major plant renovation project, the engineering department has been asked to balance a revised assembly operation to achieve output of 300 units per eight-hour day. The precedence diagram is as follows. Task times below are in minutes. So, co also. Please use this information and the precedent diagram to answer the question. 1.0 What is the Theoretical Minimum amount of work stations? Remember work stations must be whole numbers. ave and Submit to save and submit. Click Save All Answers to save all answers.

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Takt time of the line= Total time available/ Total demand= 8*60/300= 1.6 mins

Theoritical Minimum no. of station= total time of all process/ takt time= (0.2+0.5+0.6+1.2+0.3+0.6+1)/1.6= 4.4/1.6= 2.75 or 3 stations