A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink called Yoggo. A bottling...

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A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink called Yoggo. A bottling line puts the soft drinks into plastic bottles and then packages the bottles into boxes holding 10 bottles each. The bottling line is comprised of the following four steps: (1) the bottling machine takes 1 second to fill a bottle, (2) the lid machine takes 3 seconds to cover the bottle with a lid, (3) a labeling machine takes 3 seconds per bottle, and (4) the packaging machine takes 4 seconds to place a bottle into a box. When a box has been filled with 10 bottles, a worker tending the packaging machine removes the filled box and replaces it with an empty box. Assume that the time for the worker to remove a filled box and replace it with an empty box is negligible and hence does not affect the capacity of the line. Problem data are summarized in the following table. Process Step Bottling Apply a lid Labeling Packaging Number of Machines Seconds per Bottle 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 4 AQAQAQAD Bottling Apply a Lid Labeling Packaging The flow diagram is shown above. a. What is the capacity (bottles/hour) at the resource "Apply a lid"? b. What is the bottleneck in the process? bottles per hour c. Assuming unlimited demand, what would be the flow rate? bottles per hour Enter your answer as a whole percent. d. Assuming unlimited demand, what would be the utilization at resource "Apply a lid"? percent Enter your answer as a whole percent. + e. If demand were 12 bottles per minute, what would be the utilization of bottling? percent If demand were 12 bottles per minute, what would be the cycle time (seconds) of the process? seconds g. Assume the process started empty and that this is a machine- paced process. How long would it take to produce 500 bottles? seconds A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink called Yoggo. A bottling line puts the soft drinks into plastic bottles and then packages the bottles into boxes holding 10 bottles each. The bottling line is comprised of the following four steps: (1) the bottling machine takes 1 second to fill a bottle, (2) the lid machine takes 3 seconds to cover the bottle with a lid, (3) a labeling machine takes 3 seconds per bottle, and (4) the packaging machine takes 4 seconds to place a bottle into a box. When a box has been filled with 10 bottles, a worker tending the packaging machine removes the filled box and replaces it with an empty box. Assume that the time for the worker to remove a filled box and replace it with an empty box is negligible and hence does not affect the capacity of the line. Problem data are summarized in the following table. Process Step Bottling Apply a lid Labeling Packaging Number of Machines Seconds per Bottle 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 4 AQAQAQAD Bottling Apply a Lid Labeling Packaging The flow diagram is shown above. a. What is the capacity (bottles/hour) at the resource "Apply a lid"? b. What is the bottleneck in the process? bottles per hour c. Assuming unlimited demand, what would be the flow rate? bottles per hour Enter your answer as a whole percent. d. Assuming unlimited demand, what would be the utilization at resource "Apply a lid"? percent Enter your answer as a whole percent. + e. If demand were 12 bottles per minute, what would be the utilization of bottling? percent If demand were 12 bottles per minute, what would be the cycle time (seconds) of the process? seconds g. Assume the process started empty and that this is a machine- paced process. How long would it take to produce 500 bottles? seconds