As Part of Business Reengineering, Your Department Has Been Asked

Essay

As part of business reengineering, your department has been asked to balance a revised assembly operation to achieve an output of 250 units per eight-hour day. Task times and precedence relationships are presented below. $\begin{array}{ccc} \text {Task} &\text { Task Time (minutes)} & \text {Immediate Predecessors} \\ \mathrm{A} & 0.3 & \mathrm{B} \\ \mathrm{B} & 0.5 & \mathrm{D} \\ \mathrm{C} & 0.2 & \mathrm{D} \\ \mathrm{D} & 1.2 & \mathrm{E} \\ \mathrm{E} & 0.1 & \mathrm{G} \\\mathrm{G} & 1.0 & \mathrm{H} \\ \mathrm{H} & 1.2 &\text { End}\end{array}$
Based on the information:
A. Determine the cycle time
B. Determine the theoretical minimum number of workstations.