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a) _____ is the bottleneck.

b) The bottleneck time is ______ minutes per unit (round your response to two decimal places).

c) The throughput time of the overall system is ______ minutes(round your response to two decimal places).

d) If the firm operates 12 hours per day, 20 days per month, the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process is ____ units(enter your response as a whole number).

A production process at Kenneth Day Manufacturing is shown in the figure below. The drilling operation occurs separately from, and simultaneously with the sawing and sanding, which are independent sequential operations. A product needs to go through only one of the three assembly operations (the operations are in parallel). a 5 units/hr 5 units/hr Assembly Sawing Sanding 0.7 units/hr Welding Assembly Drilling 2 units/hr 0.7 units/hr 2.5 units/hr Assembly 0.7 units/hr is the bottleneck