1) a) Based on the following manufacturing process, what step is the bottleneck?

b) Based on the following manufacturing process, what is the bottleneck time?

c) Based on the following manufacturing process, what step is the throughput time?

d) Based on the following manufacturing process, what is the capacity of the drilling station?

e) Based on the following manufacturing process, what is the capacity of the sawing station?

f) Based on the following manufacturing process, what is the capacity of the Assembly station?

g) If the Assembly station for a manufacturing process has a capacity of 5 units/hour, what is the process time for this step (or how long does it take to make 1 unit)?

h) If the Welding station for a manufacturing process has a capacity of 6 units/hour, what is the process time for this step (or how long does it take to make 1 unit)?

i) Based on the following manufacturing process, what would happen to the capacity of the system/process if a parallel sawing station was added (so units could be processed on either station)?

Nothing. Adding capacity to a non-bottle neck station is a mirage.

The bottleneck time would decrease by half.

Capacity of the entire system/process would triple.

None of the above.

j) Based on the following manufacturing process, what would happen to the capacity of the system/process if a parallel assembly station was added (so units could be processed on either station)?

The throughput time for the process would be reduced by 12.5 minutes.

The bottleneck time would decrease by half.

The capacity of the entire system/process would increase from 2.4 units/hour to 3 units/hour.

Nothing. Adding capacity to a non-bottle neck station is a mirage.

Based on the following manufacturing process, what step is the bottleneck? Sawing Sanding Drilling Welding Assembly 20 min/unit 15 min/unit 15 min/unit 10 min/unit 25 min/unit