Given info from steps:

2) extraction

• processing capacity = 20,000 finished juice concentrate

3) filtration

• processing capacity = 20,000 finished juice concentrate
• filter must be changed out every 90 minutes of run time.
• downtime to change out filter & restart = 30 minutes

4) concentration

• Concentration capacity = 16,000 pounds of finished juice concentrate

I. Natural Blends (NB) Case A & B: Consider Steps 2, 3, and 4:

Questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, and 3b below are directly from Natural Blends Part A - in this subcase, the entire subsystem (steps 2 - 4) is already setup to produce only one size of oranges.

1. a. In this part there is no buffer inventory allowed between process steps 2, 3, and 4. What is the impact of having no inventory buffers on process capacity? Specifically, how much orange juice concentrate can be processed in one 8-hour workday? [Note: Do not blindly use a capacity formula with setups from the text/slides, which corresponds to allowing sufficient buffer inventory! Instead consider "Buffer or Suffer." With no storage allowed, can any process step work faster than any other? Without buffers, what happens to a process step when some other step is stopped for setups?]