A Manufacturing Corp. with three$-$station work cell has the process displayed below. Each workstation has only one worker to the assigned activity. Single order arrives every $7\mathrm{.}5$ hours.

a$)$ What is the minimum throughput time and WIP of this work cell?

b$)$ What is the maximum throughput?

c$)$ What is the cycle time corresponding to maximum throughput and actual throughput?

d$)$ Suppose that a second parallel machine is added at station $2.$ What is the new bottleneck time and new throughput time of the system? How did the addition of the second machine at workstation $2$ affect the performance of the work cell?

IN

Station $1$

Task Time: $3$ hrs$.$

Station $2$

Task Time: $5$ hrs$.$

Station $3$

Task Time:$2$hrs$.$

OUT