Question: a) which is the bottleneck? _____________ b) The bottleneck time is _____________ minutes per unit (round your response to two decimal places). c) The throughput

a) which is the bottleneck? _____________ b) The

a) which 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 8 hours per day, 20 days per month, the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process is ___________units (enter your response as a whole number).

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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 5 units/hr Assembly 0.7 units/hr Q Sawing Sanding Welding 2.5 units/hr Assembly 0.7 units/hr Drilling 5 units/hr Assembly 0.7 units/hr a) is the bottleneck

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