Question: Jim ( a . k . a . James or Jimothy ) , a recent Systems Engineering graduate from OU ( Scranton Campus ) ,

Jim (a.k.a. James or Jimothy), a recent Systems Engineering graduate from OU (Scranton Campus), started
working for a local manufacturing company and is now primarily responsible for benchmarking the performance of
their main production line. A senior engineer has provided Jim with the lines raw process time and bottleneck rate,
which were 45 minutes and 200 parts/hour, respectively. The engineer also estimated that an average of 350 parts
were either in process or queued anywhere on that line, and that the throughput of the line was averaging 160
parts/hour. If Jim chose to benchmark the throughput of this line against the practical worst-case scenario, could he
say that the line is doing acceptably well?

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