Question

Banana Corp. is designing a product layout for a new product. They plan to use this production line 10 hours a day in order to meet forecasted demand of 1200 units per day. Times to complete each task are in given in seconds. Without considering forecasted demand, what is the minimum possible cycle time for this production line?

Answer 1

The minimum possible cycle time for this production line can be determined by finding the bottleneck or the task that takes the longest time to complete.

Step-by-step explanation:

The minimum possible cycle time for this production line can be determined by finding the bottleneck or the task that takes the longest time to complete. In this case, we are given the times to complete each task in seconds.

To find the minimum cycle time, we need to find the task with the longest time and set that as the cycle time. This ensures that all tasks can be completed within the cycle time without any overlap.

Once we identify the task with the longest time, we can calculate the minimum cycle time by converting the task time from seconds to hours.

In this case, if the task with the longest time takes 900 seconds, the minimum cycle time would be 0.25 hours (900 seconds / 3600 seconds per hour).