Question

Q1

Barton Sounds, Inc., produces high quality but expensive headsets for audio mania group. Manufacturing the headsets involves fourteen production tasks. Below is shown each task with its required time to finish it and its preceding task or tasks.    The Barton Sounds determines that there are 480 productive minutes of work available per day. Furthermore, the production schedule requires that 40 units be completed as output form the assembly line each day.    Please answer the following questions and show all your work for partial credits.

Production Task	Time (min)	Immediate Follower (s)
A	10	B
B	11	D
C	5	D
D	4	G
E	12	F
F	3	G
G	10	H
H	9	I
I	3	END
Total Time	67 min

1. Draw the precedence diagram for this assembly line.
2. Given the demand, what is the cycle time for this operation?
3. Determine the theoretical minimum number of work stations required.

Answer 1