Question: 1 . Consider the following process, with a daily customer arrival rate of 1 4 0 . Each customer gos through registration in step 1

1. Consider the following process, with a daily customer arrival rate of 140. Each customer gos through registration in step 1.There is a buffer before entering step 2, and the average duration of waiting in that buffer is 5 minutes.
At step 2, there is a assessment to specify where each customer must go next, and depending on the findings of that assessment, usually 60% of them are directed to step 3, which takes 10 minutes in average for each of them, while the rest of the customers are directed to step 4 which takes 15 minutes in average. Once each customer goes through the respective step (3 or 4), they exit this process. Please answer the following questions accordingly.
Note:
1) Consider each day as 8 hours.
2) Start and end points as well as decision points(assessment) have zero duration.
1-1. What is the flow unit in this process?(2points)
- Amount of your time spent in the throughout the whole method from the 1st to the last step, flow time is like the length of the longest path in the process.
1-2. How much is the flow time for the buffer?(3 points)
1-3. If the working hours woub be 7 hours each day, what is the hourly rate of customer arrivals to this process? (2 points)
1-4. If there are 2 customers waiting for,or are being served at step 1 at any point in time, what is the average time that step 1 is taking from the beginning to the end?(3 points)
1-5. As you know, only some of the customers go through step 3 or 4, and the total duration of this process will be different for each stream. Knowing this, what is the process flow time?(5 points)

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