Question: A manufacturing process has 2 stations, A and B, that are ordered in sequence. At each station, two tasks are performed one after the other.

A manufacturing process has 2 stations, A and B, that are ordered in sequence. At each station, two tasks are performed one after the other. Suppose the time (in seconds per unit) it takes for a single person to perform each task is as given in the table below:

(e.g., task A2 takes 25 seconds per unit). If station A has 1 worker and station B has two workers to do the different tasks, what is the capacity of this process under steady state (in units per hr)?

STATION # OF WORKERS TASK A1 TASK A2 TASK B1 TASK B2
A 1 20 25 - -
B 2 - - 40 40

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