Chapter 7s question 11, Extra Question: The manager has decided to increase the capacity of this three station work cell. He has assigned 2 more machines to station 3. What is the new capacity?

The three-station work cell illustrated in Figure S7.7 has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2.

a)	What is the bottleneck time of the system?

b) What is the bottleneck station of this work cell? c) What is the throughput time? d) If the firm operates 10 hours per day, 5 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell?

Group of answer choices

500

3000

175

250

1000