The Process Design Team at a Contract Manufacturer in Thailand

Multiple Choice

The process design team at a contract manufacturer in Thailand has broken an assembly process into 8 basic steps, each with a required time and predecessor, as shown in the table. There are 7.5 productive hours available in a day, and the manufacturer wishes to produce 400 units.

-Operations managers and process engineers design a line that contains 6 stations. What is the efficiency?

A) 57.41%
B) 76.54%
C) 65.61%
D) 91.85%
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