A company needs to produce 400 units per day (the day is defined as 12 hours of production).There are three tasks to be completed, with a total task time for all three tasks of 6 minutes.The company should have:

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To produce 400 units in 12 hours, the cycle time would be 12 hours / 400 units = 1.8 minutes per unit. 
Assuming each workstation has one operator, the total work content per workstation would be 6 minutes / 3 tasks = 2 minutes of work. 
Therefore, the required workstation would be 1.8 minutes per unit / 2 minutes of work content per workstation = 0.9 workstations, meaning that at least one workstation is needed per task. 
Since a whole workstation cannot be split between tasks, the best choice would be to round up to the next higher integer, which is 4 workstations.

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