1). If the incline conveyor can deliver 20Kg of potatoes to the peeler in 16 seconds, what is the line speed of the incline conveyor represented in Kg/Hour?

2) The peel quality specification of the customer is 55% peel and it takes 40s of peel time to achieve this quality level. If we want to load the line at 10Kg/batch, what is the line speed of the peeler represented in Kg/Hour?

3) If the slicer requires 13s to process 5Kg of peeled potatoes at the required slice specification of 2mm+/- .5mm, what is the line speed (rate) of the cutter in Kg/min? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

4) Which of the three factors above is the rate limiting step or bottleneck, and why?

5) If the potato peeling line was only available to operate for 16 hours per day, 5 days per week at the parameters described above, A) What would be the theoretical annual capacity of the line? B) What would be the actual annual line capacity if there was an average of 13% downtime?