Question: A process has 3 stages as shown below. P1, P2 etc. are the labels for the machine and the other number in the box is

 A process has 3 stages as shown below. P1, P2 etc.

A process has 3 stages as shown below. P1, P2 etc. are the labels for the machine and the other number in the box is the machine capacity in units per hour. (round to 2 decimals as needed) (a) What is the cycle time for stage 1 (in seconds per unit)? (b) What is the cycle time for stage 2 (in seconds per unit)? (c) What is the cycle time for stage 3 (in seconds per unit)? (d) What is the bottleneck stage? (e) If you can add only one machine in parallel at the bottleneck stage, what should be the largest cycle time for the new machine so that you increase the process capacity as much as possible without paying for excess capacity

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