In Assembly-Line Balancing, Cycle Time (The Ratio of Available Production

Multiple Choice

In assembly-line balancing, cycle time (the ratio of available production time to scheduled production) is the:

A) minimum time that a product is allowed at each workstation.
B) maximum time that a product is allowed at each workstation.
C) inverse of the minimum number of workstations needed.
D) sum of all the task times divided by the maximum number of workstations.
E) equivalent of the maximum task time among all tasks.