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CMA Intermediate · Operations Management and Strategic Management · Simulation and Line Balancing

In the largest candidate rule (ranked positional weight is a related method) for line balancing, tasks are assigned to a workstation by choosing, among eligible tasks, the one with the:

The largest candidate rule chooses the eligible task with the longest task time that still fits in the station's remaining time. Eligibility means all predecessor tasks are already assigned, so precedence constraints are always honoured.

  1. ALongest task time that fits in the remaining station time and satisfies precedenceCorrect
  2. BShortest task time regardless of precedence
  3. CFewest successor tasks regardless of time
  4. DLowest wage cost per minute

Explanation

The largest candidate rule picks from tasks whose predecessors are done and that fit within the remaining time at the station, the one with the longest time. Precedence must always be respected, so ignoring it is wrong.

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