Discussion of Results The results shows when it is given too much time employees idle, and when employees

are given too little time that result are product rejects in paced assembly lines. For unpaced lines tasks have to be evenly distributed between workers, otherwise there are blocked and starved workers.

1. Which of the paced line experiments 1, 2, or 3 do you feel had the best line performance? Justify your response.

I believe experiment 2 had the best performance, because employees did not waste as much time as in experiment 1, and it did not have any product rejections, which I cannot say the same thing for experiment 3.
1. Which of the unpaced line experiments 4 or 5 do you feel had the best line performance? Justify your response. I strongly believe experiment 4 had the best performance, because none of the employees were blocked or starved. 2. Compare the best paced line configuration (found in Question 1) to the best unpaced line configuration (Question 2). Which of these do you feel is better? Justify your response. Experiment 2 and experiment 4had best performances, I believe 4 had a better performance, because it ran smoothly with no time to be wasted leaving more assembly time, which means more product. 3. Where did starving and blocking occur (i.e., at what stations) in Experiment 4? Experiment 5? Why do you think this occurred in each case? Station 1, 3 were blocked, and station 5 was starved in experiment 5. Stations 1 and 3 were given smaller tasks resulting in finishing their task much faster than the others. The last station was starved because the tasks for 2 and 4 were larger tasks resulting in holding the line. 4. Based upon the experiments performed, describe some conditions under which you feel a paced line would be preferred over an unpaced line. For a paced line task sizes have to be almost equal for every employee, and enough time has to be given to finish each separate task.
Conclusions (15 points) It was found that when a paced line had equally distributed tasks to employees, enough time to complete each task they ran smoothly. Also, it was found for unpaced lines that when evenly distributed tasks between the line not only would run smoothly but run faster than paced lines.