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Jobs arrive randomly at a particular assembly plant; assume that the given arrival rates in the table below has a Poisson distribution and service times (in minutes per job) do not follow the exponential probability distribution. Four proposed designs for the plant's assembly operation are shown: Compute the average time in the assembly plant for each design and decide which design provides the best performance?


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Step 1: Calculate the average service time (AST) for each design using the mean service time provided:
AST (DESIGN A) = 4 minutes per job
AST (DESIGN B) = 5 minutes per job
AST (DESIGN C) = 6 minutes per job
AST (DESIGN D) = 7 minutes per job
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