Question: A bread-making factory has the production process shown in the figure below. There are five operations in sequence. The product only needs to go through

A bread-making factory has the production process shown in the figure below. There are five operations in sequence. The product only needs to go through one of the parallel machines in each case where parallel machines exist. (10 points)

A bread-making factory has the production process shown in the figure below.

  1. What is the bottleneck time per batch of this process?

  1. What is the bottleneck operation of this process?

  1. What is the throughput time of this process?

  1. Assume 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of the process?

  1. What machine(s) and how many of each type would the factory need to add to the line so that the Proof station is the bottleneck operation?

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