A Company Needs to Rebalance a Product Layout for Producing

Multiple Choice

A company needs to rebalance a product layout for producing new plastic license plates. They plan to use the assembly line 6 hours in order to meet projected demand of 2,160 license plates each day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of this product:

For output to equal projected demand, what will be the idle time at the second workstation of the assembly line that uses the minimum number of workstations?

A) 0 seconds
B) 1 second
C) 2 seconds
D) 3 seconds
E) 5 seconds