Question: A three-station work cell has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to

A three-station work cell has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2 and then on to station 3. Both Machine A and Machine B at Station 1 take 20 minutes per unit. Station 2 takes 12 minutes per unit. Station 3 takes 5 minutes per unit.

Part 2

a) The throughput time is. 3737. minutes (enter your response as a whole number).

Part 3

b) The bottleneck time of this work cell is 12 minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).

Part 4

c) Station 2 is the bottleneck station.

Part 5

d) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is ______ units (enter your response as a whole number).

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