You are deigning a proce for the aembly of a conumer electronic product with a labor content of nine minute. You are trying to decide whether to ue (1) a ingle machine-paced line with eight worker or (2) eight eparate ingle-worker cell. Each of the eight ingle-operator cell would perform exactly the ame collection of aembly tak a the ingle line, uing the ame tool, technologie and equipment. On the aembly line, each worker would be aigned to a ingle aembly tak. There are ignificant difference in tak time among the eight tak. Which approach would typically achieve a higher level of worker utilization?
