Question

"Bass Fishing, Inc. assembles fishing nets with aluminum handles in an assembly line using five workstations. Management wants an output rate of 200 nets per day using a 6.5-hour work day. The sum of the task times is 6.50 minutes/net."What is the cycle time?What is assembly-line efficiency?What is total idle time?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

• Cycle time = Production time available / desired unit of output

= (6.5 hours X 60 minutes per hour) / 200 units of net per day

= 390 / 200 = 1.95 minutes per net

• Assembly-line efficiency = sum of the task times / (number of work stations X cycle time)

= 6.50 / (5 X 1.95) = 66.67%

• Total idle time = (number of work stations X cycle time) - sum of the task times
• = (5X1.95) - 6.50 = 9.75 - 6.50 = 3.25minutes