Question: Hello pls answer & I will rate thumbs up:) We have a five-stations production line in which each station has different number of machines (in

Hello pls answer & I will rate thumbs up:)Hello pls answer & I will rate thumbs up:) We

We have a five-stations production line in which each station has different number of machines (in parallel : . Workstation 1 has 4 identical machines with average processing time of 20 minutes. 12 Workstation 2 has 5 identical machines with average processing times of 15 minutes. 20 Workstation 3 has 10 identical machines with average processing times of 30 minutes. 20 Workstation 4 has 1 machine with average processing times of 5 minutes. 12 Workstation 5 has 2 identical machines with average processing times of 8 minutes. 15 A) [5 marks] Calculate the capacity of each stations as parts/minute. Calculate the capacity of each stations as parts/hour. B. [5 marks] Identify the bottleneck station and give the bottleneck rate. If the line works two shifts daily for a total of 7 hours at each shift, calculate how much the line can produce per day. C. [5 marks] If the production line operates at its bottleneck rate what would be the utilization of each station? D. [5 marks] If the production line operates at a throughput of 10 parts/hour, what would be the utilization of each station? E. [5 marks] Can we operate this production line at a throughput of 15 parts/hour? Explain what would happen. F. (5 marks] Calculate the critical WIP for this line. Explain its meaning for this line. G. (10 marks] If you would like to achieve a throughput of 90% of the bottleneck rate, then calculate the average level of work-in-process necessary for that for the three cases of worst-case performance, best case performance, and worst case performance. Make appropriate comments on that

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