Class: Operations Management

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1. Consider a process consisting of three stations (Station 1 comes first, followed by Station 2 and then Station 3): Assuming 100% machine availability and 100% yield, answer the following questions: (a) Which station(s) is the bottleneck of the system? What is the process capacity (measured in \# units/hour)? (b) If demand is 18 units per hour, what is the output rate of the process, and what is the utilization of each station? 2. Consider a problem that is similar to one of the examples discussed in Week 2: a single product that needs to be processed in all three stages in a row in a sequential manner. The figure below captures the entire process. Capacity Analysis: Single Product, Multi Stages (a) Given the information above, identify the bottleneck(s) of the entire process. If there are multiple bottlenecks, list all of them. (b) What is the capacity of the entire process? (c) What is the capacity of the entire process if the product's input rate into Stage 1 is 1 unit per hour, that is, every hour, there is 1 unit of the product going into Stage 2 for processing? (d) What is the capacity of the entire process if the product's input rate into Stage 1 is 100 units per hour, that is, every hour, there are 100 units of the product going into Stage 2 for processing