Consider a production sequence: grindingmillingdrilling taking 15 mins, 12 mins and 15 mins respectively for every unit of the product. Daily demand of this product is 40 units. Assume that the factory works 8 hours per day.

a. What is the maximum possible production rate per day?

b. Identify bottleneck and non-bottleneck work stations?

c. What is your observation on WIP in this scenario?

d. What should be done to meet the demand?

e. If you are able to save 2 minutes in workstation 1, is there an impact in production rate?

f. If you are able to save 2 minutes in workstation 3, is there an impact in production rate?

g. If you are able to save 2 minutes in both workstation 1 and 3, is there an impact in production rate?

h. If the sequence is millinggrinding drilling, will there be any change in production rate or utilization or WIP?

i. What is the production lead time when the process batch size and transfer batch size is 1500? What is the production lead time when the process batch size is made variable in non-bottleneck split into 500, 500, 500 and transfer batch size is 100?