Question: ( 2 5 points ) Consider a bakery with 3 mixers, each of which can process 2 5 batches an hour, a single oven which

(25 points) Consider a bakery with
3 mixers, each of which can process 25 batches an hour,
a single oven which can process 40 batches an hour,
and 10 cooling racks, each of which can process 6 batches an hour.
Batches go through the mixer first, are then baked in the oven, and are finally placed on the cooling racks, until they have completed cooling.
(a) Find the capacity of the mixers, the oven, and the cooling racks, along with the overall capacity of the bakery. Where is the bottleneck in this system? [5 points]
(b) If the bakery's owners want to increase the bakery's capacity, what should they purchase? An additional mixer, an additional oven, or an additional cooling rack? After this purchase, does the bottleneck change? Why or why not? [5 points]
(c) Assuming no additional purchase is made and on average orders amounting to 35 batches are submitted to the bakery every hour, find the utilization of the mixers, the oven, and the cooling racks, along with the overall utilization of the bakery. [5 points]
(d) Assuming the same setting as in part (c), if there are an average of 20 batches in the mixing stage, 30 batches in the baking (i.e., oven) stage, and each batch spends an average of 2 hours in the whole system, on average how many batches are there in the cooling stage? [5 points]
(e) Assuming the same setting as in part (d), on average, how long does each batch spend in each of the three stages: mixing, baking, and cooling? [5 points]
 (25 points) Consider a bakery with 3 mixers, each of which

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