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This document contains 6 examples of assembly line design and balancing problems. Each example provides task information like times and precedence relationships and asks questions to determine workstation cycle times, balance the line into workstations, and calculate line efficiency. It also asks how demand increases would be addressed by modifying the line balance.

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Layout Concept

This document contains 6 examples of assembly line design and balancing problems. Each example provides task information like times and precedence relationships and asks questions to determine workstation cycle times, balance the line into workstations, and calculate line efficiency. It also asks how demand increases would be addressed by modifying the line balance.

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1. An assembly line is to operate eight hours per day with a desired output of 240 units per day.

The following table contains information on this product’s task times and precedence
relationships:

a. Draw the precedence diagram.


b. What is the workstation cycle time?
c. Balance this line using the longest task time.
d. What is the efficiency of your line balance?

2. The desired daily output for an assembly line is 360 units. This assembly line will operate 450
minutes per day. The following table contains information on this product’s task times
and precedence relationships:

a. Draw the precedence diagram.


b. What is the workstation cycle time?
c. Balance this line using the largest number of following tasks. Use the longest task time as
a secondary criterion.
d. What is the efficiency of your line balance?

3. Some tasks and the order in which they must be performed according to their assembly
requirements are shown in the following table. These are to be combined into workstations to
create an assembly line. The assembly line operates 712
hours per day. The output requirement
is 1,000 units per day.
a. What is the workstation cycle time?
b. Balance the line using the longest task time based on the 1,000-unit forecast, stating which
tasks would be done in each workstation.
c. For b, what is the efficiency of your line balance?
d. After production was started, Marketing realized that they understated demand and must increase
output to 1,100 units. What action would you take? Be specific in quantitative terms,
if appropriate.

4 An initial solution has been given to the following process layout problem. Given the flows
described and a cost of $2.00 per unit per foot, compute the total cost for the layout. Each
location is 100 feet long and 50 feet wide as shown on the following figure. Use the centers of
departments for distances and measure distance using metropolitan-rectilinear distance.

5. An assembly line is to be designed to operate 712 hours per day and supply a steady demand
of 300 units per day. Here are the tasks and their performance times:
a. Draw the precedence diagram.
b. What is the workstation cycle time?
c. What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations?
d. Assign tasks to workstations using the longest operating time.
e. What is the efficiency of your line balance?
f. Suppose demand increases by 10 percent. How would you react to this? Assume that you
can operate only 7 1
2 hours per day.

6. The following tasks are to be performed on an assembly line:

The workday is seven hours long. Demand for completed product is 750 per day.
a. Find the cycle time.
b. What is the theoretical number of workstations?
c. Draw the precedence diagram.
d. Balance the line using sequential restrictions and the longest-operating-time rule.
e. What is the efficiency of the line balanced as in d?
f. Suppose that demand rose from 750 to 800 units per day. What would you do? Show any
amounts or calculations.
g. Suppose that demand rose from 750 to 1,000 units per day. What would you do? Show
any amounts or calculations.

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