Question: I need help with A, B, C & D. Q4. Orange Juice Production Consider the following process of orange juice production: JE in Filtering Extraction
I need help with A, B, C & D.
Q4. Orange Juice Production Consider the following process of orange juice production: JE in Filtering Extraction Bottling Orange juice Orange Recourse capacity 2,000 gallons/hr 1,800 gallons/hr 2,100 gallons/hr a) What are the capacity and designed cycle time (in seconds) of the process? Where is the process bottleneck? b) A customer comes for a rush order of 400 gallons of juice. We do not have any finished product and pending custom orders. The process is running at its capacity. How long should that customer wait? c) On average, the juice plant gets orders of 45,000 gallons of juice each week (working 5 days a week, 8 hrs a day). c.1. What is the demand rate? c.2. How fast should the plant produce in order to satisfy the demand (this is asking you the requested cycle time)? c.3. What is the utilization of each resource? What is the utilization of this process? d) Last week, the plant signed a contract with a new client which boosts the demand to 2000 gallons per hour. Now what is the utilization of each resource? What is the utilization of this process
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