CENARIO A:

Suppose you are given the following sequential process. Times to complete each task are shown in parentheses. There are no inventory buffers between tasks, so upstream tasks must wait if downstream tasks are busy.

Task 1 (11 minutes) ----> Task 2 (15 minutes) ----> Task 3 (10 minutes)

Task 1 can handle 2 customers at once; Task 2 can handle 3 customers at once; Task 3 can handle 1 customer at a time.

All answers are in customers and/or minutes, where appropriate.

Refer to Scenario A. If the process were to run, what throughput rate would occur at the end of Task 3, in customers per hour?

A. 0.1

B. 0.4

C. 1

D. 6

E. 10