Question: Returning to problem 5, if weekly demand for the four products are A-148 = 100 units, B-356 = 400 units, B-457 = 250 units, and

Returning to problem 5, if weekly demand for the four products are A-148 = 100 units, B-356 = 400 units, B-457 = 250 units, and C-843 = 100 units, which station is the bottleneck now, and is it capable of producing all the toys demanded? If so, how many additional units of C-843 could be produced? Under this condition, does the bottleneck change?
Problem 5
Super Fun Industries manufactures four top-selling toys code named A-148, B-356, B-457, and C-843. The following table shows how long it takes to process each toy through each required station. Note that all times are in minutes. Super Fun's manufacturing plant is open 16 hours a day, 5 days a week, and 8 hours on Saturday.
Returning to problem 5, if weekly demand for the four

A-148 B-356 B-457 C-843 Processing Time Station 1 6 min 5min 0 min 8 min Processing Time Station 244 min 5 min 2 min Processing Time Station 3 5 min7 min4 min 2 min Processing Time Station 4 3 min n 0 1 min

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