Question: ABC Corporation has the process displayed below. The drilling operation occurs separately and simultaneously with the sawing and sanding operations. The product only needs to

ABC Corporation has the process displayed below.
ABC Corporation has the process displayed below. The drilling operation occurs separately and simultaneously with the sawing and sanding operations. The product only needs to go through one of three assembly operations (the assembly operations are Parallel). 1. Which operation is the bottleneck? 2. What is the process cycle time for the overall system? 3. If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 22 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process? 4. Supposed that a second sanding machine is added, and it has the same process time as the original sanding machine. What is new bottleneck and new process time of the system? 20 min/unit 33 min/unit 90 min/unit Assembly Sawing Sanding 30 min/unit Welding 90 min/unit Assembly 32 min/unit Drilling 90 min/unit Assembly

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