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 9 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). 1.8 units/hr Sawing 7 units/hr Sanding Assembly 0.8 units/hr Welding 2.5 units/hr Assembly 0.8 units/hr Drilling 5 units/hr Assembly 0.8 units/hr