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A producer of inkjet printers is planning to add a new line of printers, and you have been asked to balance this process given the following task times and precedence relationship. Immediate predecessor Pos Weight F G ABUDDECH Task Duration (min) 0.2 -- 0.4 A 0.3 -- 1.3 B, C 0.1 0.8 E 0.3 D F 1.2 G 3.7 3.5 3.1 2.8 2.4 2.3 1.5 1.2 Suppose that the desired output rate is 400 units per day and the line will operate for 10 hours a day. a) What is the theoretically minimum number of workstations? b) c) What is the minimum cycle time for this product? If the firm could work with the minimum cycle time you found above, what would be the corresponding efficiency? d) As discussed in class, determine the best balanced line for this producer. Use the ranked positional weight rule for line balancing; use shortest task time rule for tie-breaker. e) In answering part (d) above, you must have considered different alternative approaches to line balancing. For each of these alternative solutions, discuss whether or not you would use any of the three job design practices discussed in class, namely rotation, job enlargement and job enrichment, in improving the implementation of your solution. If so, how

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