Question: (/ 25pts ) Consider a process to deliver meals to those in need with the following three steps and the processing times and number of

  1. (/25pts) Consider a process to deliver meals to those in need with the following three steps and the processing times and number of resources shown

Step

Processing time (min/meal)

# Workers

1) Pick items

20

4

2) Pack in box and add address

12

2

3) Deliver

32

6

a) (/7) What is the capacity of each step (meals/hr)?

b) (/5) Which step is the bottleneck? What is the process capacity (meals/hr)?

c) (/3) What is the flow rate of the process, if demand is 8 meals/hour?

d) (/5) If demand is 8 meals/hour what is the utilization of each resource?

e) (/5) One of the workers has called in sick. Workers at the food pantry are cross-trained to do either step 1 or 2 but cannot do step 3 (drive). Can the process be rebalanced among the remaining workers to meet demand?

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