DECISION POINTIf the manager finds a solution with five stations that satisfies all precedence constraints, then that is the optimalsolution; it has the minimum number of stations possible. However, the efficiency (sometimes called the theoretical maximum efficiency) will be only 81.3 percent. Perhaps the line should be operated less than 40 hours per week (thereby adjusting the cycle time) and the employees transferred to other kinds of work when the line does not operate.