Fun Vehicles, Inc The Company Wants to Re- Balance Its Line to Increase

Multiple Choice

Fun Vehicles, Inc., makes "beach buggies" on an assembly line with 11 work elements. Information on these work elements is as follows:
$$\begin{array} { | c | l | l | } \hline \begin{array} { c } \text { Work } \\\text { Element }\end{array} & \text { Time (sec) } & \begin{array} { l } \text { Immediate } \\\text { Predecessor(s) }\end{array} \\\hline 1 & 40 & \text { None } \\2 & 35 & 1 \\3 & 20 & 1 \\4 & 25 & 1 \\5 & 30 & 2,3 \\6 & 35 & 4 \\7 & 35 & 5 \\8 & 15 & 5,9 \\9 & 5 & 6 \\10 & 40 & 4,9 \\11 & 38 & 7,8,10 \\\hline\end{array}$$
The company wants to re- balance its line to increase the output to two buggies every three minutes. Use the longest work- element time rule to assign tasks to the workstations. Which of the following is the assignment for the first two stations (S1 and S2) produced by this rule? $$\begin{array}{l}\text { Station Station }\\1 \text { Tasks } \quad 2 \text { Tasks }\end{array}$$

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D) $1,3,4 \quad 2,5,8$