Question: b ) Sutera Manufacturing has the process as shown in Figure 2 . The drilling operation occurs separately from and simultaneously with the sawing and

b) Sutera Manufacturing has the process as shown in Figure 2. The drilling operation occurs separately from and simultaneously with the sawing and sanding operations. The product only needs to go through one of the three assembly operations (the assembly operations are "parallel").
i) Define the bottleneck station and bottleneck time of the system
ii) Determine the throughput time for the overall system
iii) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 22 days per month, determine the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process
iv) Second drilling machine is proposed to be added, and it takes the same time as the original drilling machine. Define the new bottleneck time of the system
Figure 2: Product structure
 b) Sutera Manufacturing has the process as shown in Figure 2.

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