A small electrical appliance is to be produced on a single-model assembly line. Thework content of assembling the product has been reduced to the work elements listedin Table. The table also lists the times for each element and the precedence order inwhich they must be performed. The line is to be balanced for an annual demand of100,000 units/yr. The line will operate 50 wk/yr, 5 shifts/wk, and 7.5 hr/shift. Therewill be one worker per station. Previous experience suggests that the uptimeefficie

(a) Discuss the difference between multi model and mixed model assembly lines.

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SOLVED: A small electronic appliance is to be produced on a single model assembly line. The line is to be balanced for an annual demand of 200,000 units/year. The line will operate 50 weekly shifts/week and 10 hr/shift. Manning level will be 1 worker/station and the uptime efficiency for the line will be 95%, and repositioning time lost per cycle will be 0.08 min and the total work content time is 6 min. Based on these details, calculate the following: The production rate for this single model l

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