Question

An assembly line has 6 work stations with cycle time of 6 minutes.There are 10 tasks with total work content of 12 minutes. What is approximate efficiency of this line

Answer 1

Approximate efficinecy of line = 33 percent

Explanation:

Given Data:

number of work stations = 6, cycle time = 6 minutes, number of tasks = 10, total work content given = 12 minutes

In order to calculate the efficiency of work line, the following formula will be used

Efficiency of the lines = total work content divide by ( number of work station multiply with cycle time)

putting the figures in the given formula, we get,

efficiency of lines = $12 /(6 * 6)$ = 12 divide by 36

                              = 0.3333

                              = 33 percent