Total time for the second three stations is 58 +75 + 64 = 197 seconds. The first station is the bottleneck and has capacity 3 workers × 3600 seconds/hr / 198 seconds per watch = 54.5 watches per hour
Balancing a process with a fixed sequence of activities will achieve a higher average labor utilization than balancing a process with no fixed sequence of activities. A process has high fixed costs and low variable costs. It is currently capacity-constrained.