8. What is the maximum demand the process can meet (in beds per week) if there are only 5 workers with which to staff the line? What if there are only 4 workers? How should the process steps be allocated among the workers?

Operations Management: An Introduction to Process Analysis Practice Problem Consider the following process to manufacture bunk beds. Assume that the beds are made in batches of 4, and that there are 40 hours available per week for production. Each bed goes through the following nine steps. Step 1. Cut 2. Plane 3. Router 4. Drill 5. Sand 6. Stain 7. Polyurethane 8. Kit assembly 9. Cleating Setup Time Minutes per Setup 15 10 10 10 25 15 45 0 0 Run Time Minutes per Bunk Bed 37.5 38.4 48 28 24 12 90 40 15