Question: Consider the process Flow Diagram for Making a Shirt, with an Additional Worker. All steps (A, B, C, D, and E) in the below process

Consider the process Flow Diagram for Making a Shirt, with an Additional Worker. All steps (A, B, C, D, and E) in the below process are necessary to create each finished unit. Task times are shown for each step. A second worker has been hired to duplicate task D. Now shirts that have been through task C go to any one of the two workers on task D. The product still requires the five steps (A, B, C, D, E).

Refer to the Process Flow Diagram for Making a Shirt, with an Additional Worker. If the entire system (all processes) is operating at the pace of the bottleneck, what is the systems capacity? (A) 0.1 unit/minute (B) 6 units/hour. Recall that capacity is the inverse of cycle time. a) A only b) B only c) Both A and B are correct d) None of the answers are correct.

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