Q1.

Real Fruit Snack Strips are made from a mixture of dried fruits, food colouring , preservatives and
glucose. The mixture is pressed out into a thin sheet, imprinted with various shapes ,rolled and packaged.
The precedence and time requirements for each step in the assembly process are given below. To meet
the demand, Real Fruit needs to produce 6000 fruit strips every 40-hour week. Design an assembly line
with the fewest number of workstations that will achieve the production quota without violating
precedence constraints.

Work Element Precedence Time(min)

Press out sheet

A _ 0.1
of fruit

B Cut into strips A 0.2

Outline fun
C A 0.4
shapes

Roll up and
D B,C 0.3
package

Sol
Construct precedence diagram

Cd 0.4

N 2.5 Round up to 3 workstations

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 Q.2 The Basic Block company needs to produce 4000 boxes of blocks per 40-hour week to
meet upcoming holiday demand. The process of making blocks can be broken down into six
work elements. The precedence and time requirements for each element are as follows. Draw
and label a precedence diagram for the production process. Set up a balanced assembly line
and calculate the efficiency of the line.

Performa
Work nce
Precedence
Element Time(Mi
n)
A - 0.1
B A 0.4
C A 0.5
D - 0.2
E C,D 0.6
F B,E 0.4

A F

Cd 0.6
N 3.666667 Round up to 4 workstations

Balancing line