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 10 hours per day, 20 days per month, the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process is

___________units (enter your response as a whole number).

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). 5 units/hr 5 units/hr Sawing Assembly 0.8 units/hr Sanding Welding 2.1 units/hr Assembly 0.8 units/hr Drilling 2.5 units/hr Assembly 0.8 units/hr a) is the bottleneck