The following diagram illustrates a production system with four work stations arranged in sequence along with their number units each can produce per hour:

1. Which work station is the bottleneck?

2. If you could increase the capacity of any two of these work stations, which two would you focus on? By how much would you increase the capacity of these two work stations? What would be the effective capacity of the total system after these improvement were made?

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Station B 10 min/unit Station D 15 min/unit Station A Station C 12 min/unit 8 min/unit