Consider a production facility in which two products are assembled:

Choose one option:

MA and MB only

MB only

FIN only

MB and FIN only

All (PP, MA, MB, and FIN) are bottlenecks.

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Consider a production facility in which two products are assembled: A and B. Raw materials are always available. For both types of products, each unit requires preprocessing (PP) and finishing (FIN). These activities are done using shared resources that can each process a single unit at a time. The intermediate assembly step is done by dedicated machines (MA and MB, respectively). These machines, too, can process only one unit at a time. Capacities are provided on the chart below. Raw Mat'l A B PP 1200 units/day A B MA 500 units/day MB 800 units/day A B FIN 1000 units/day A B Suppose that you want to produce as many units of product B as possible and then (with the remaining capacity) produce as many units of product A as possible. Which of the following would be the bottleneck in the system? Consider a production facility in which two products are assembled: A and B. Raw materials are always available. For both types of products, each unit requires preprocessing (PP) and finishing (FIN). These activities are done using shared resources that can each process a single unit at a time. The intermediate assembly step is done by dedicated machines (MA and MB, respectively). These machines, too, can process only one unit at a time. Capacities are provided on the chart below. Raw Mat'l A B PP 1200 units/day A B MA 500 units/day MB 800 units/day A B FIN 1000 units/day A B Suppose that you want to produce as many units of product B as possible and then (with the remaining capacity) produce as many units of product A as possible. Which of the following would be the bottleneck in the system?