At a packaged fruit salad production facility there are three steps on a worker-paced line to prepare fruit salads for single-unit consumption. There is one worker per station and no inventory is stored between the steps. The packaged fruit salads are shipped in a box of 100 salads, which are loaded onto trucks using pallets. There are 25 boxes to every pallet. The processing times are

Select: 5 seconds/fruit salad

Slice: 30 seconds/fruit salad

Pack&Weigh: 40 seconds/fruit salad

What is the flow unit?

Select one:

a. the sliced fruit

b. one packaged fruit salad

c. a box of 100 fruit salads

d. 25 boxes

e. a pallet

Operations question