a. Determine the number of followers for each task.
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Transcribed Image Text:As part of a major plant renovation project, the industrial engineering department has been asked to balance a revised assembly
operation to achieve an output of 230 units per 8-hour day. Task times and precedence relationships are as follows:
Duration
Immediate
Task
(minutes)
Predecessor
a
0.2
b
0.6
a
0.4
b
d
0.7
e
1.6
f
1.8
e
f
Do each of the following:
a. Determine the number of followers for each task.
Number of tasks following task a
Number of tasks following task b
Number of tasks following task c
Number of tasks following task d
Number of tasks foll
task e
Number of tasks following task f
Number of tasks following task
g
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