Question: Consider a production line with four stations in continuous order 1-2-3-4. Station 1 has three identical machines, each of which can produce 5 units/min. Station

Consider a production line with four stations in
Consider a production line with four stations in
Consider a production line with four stations in continuous order 1-2-3-4. Station 1 has three identical machines, each of which can produce 5 units/min. Station 2 can produce 8 units/min. Station three has two simultaneous lines: one line has two continuous machines and each of them produces 9 units/min and 6 units /min respectively; the other line has only one machine producing 5 units/min. Station four can produce 12 units/ min. a) Which station is the bottleneck station? b) What is the process cycle time? c) What is the system process time? d) What if another parallel machine of station 1 is added? Will this improve the system and why

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