Assuming 100% machine availability and 100% yield, answer the following questions:

a) Which station(s) is the bottleneck of the system? What is the process capacity (measured in # units per hour)? b) If the input rate is 16 units per hour, what is the output rate of the process, and what is the utilization of each station?

1. (Capacity Analysis, one product) Consider a process consisting of three stations (Station 1 comes first, followed by Station 2 and then Station 3): Station Processing Time [Min./Unit) Number of Machines 1 5 3 2 3. 2 3. 8 4