Question: Benetton's flow chart for t-shirt production process is depicted below: Prepare front Iron . Suitch front and back D Pack 5 mins. Aunit 12 mins.

Benetton's flow chart for t-shirt production
Benetton's flow chart for t-shirt production process is depicted below: Prepare front Iron . Suitch front and back D Pack 5 mins. Aunit 12 mins. Aunit E Prepare back Iron 4 mins. Aunit 5 mins./unit B D 10 mins./unit 12 mins. Aunit All steps (A, B, C, D, and E) in the below process are necessary to create each finished unit. Task times are shown for each step. A second worker has been hired to duplicate task D. Now shirts that have been through task C go to any one of the two workers on task D. The product still requires the five steps (A, B, C, D, E).Consider only task D, ironing. If an additional ironing worker were hired so that there were three workers working in parallel, what would be the cycle time for the ironing task? Assume that the new worker is identical in capacity to the existing two

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