There are five activities in making one toy: cutting, sewing, stuffing, assembling, and packaging. The activities have to be carried out in this order. The processing time of each activity is given below:
Activity Processing time
(minutes per toy)
Cutting 10
Sewing 10
Stuffing 5
Assembling 5
Packaging 25
Demand rate is 4 toys per hour. Currently we have worker A in charge of cutting, worker B in charge of sewing and stuffing, and worker C in charge of assembling and packaging. Which of the following strategies will increase the process capacity by balancing the line?
A. Adding one additional worker to assembling.
B. Adding two additional workers to assembling.
C. Moving packaging to worker A.
D. Moving assembling to worker B.