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Download Solution PDFIn an assembly line for assembling the engine, six workers are assigned tasks that take 22, 24, 26, 27, 25 and 26 minutes respectively. The balance delay for the line is:
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Download Solution PDFExplanation:
Balance Delay(BD) – It is the ratio of total idle time of the job on the assembly line to the total time spent by the job on the assembly line.
where
TC = Cycle time (time between two successive products coming out of the production line, it maximum of the work stations time)
TWC = Total work content (Equal to the sum of the processing time of each operation)
n = number of work stations
Calculation:
Given:
TC = 27, n = 6
TWC = 22 + 24 + 26 +27 + 25 + 26 = 150
Balance delay is:
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