Question: Moonlight Bakery's cookie-making process is shown below. A unit is equivalent to a batch of 3 dozen cookies. Stage A: Dough preparation Stage B: Cooking

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Moonlight Bakery's cookie-making process is shown below. A unit is equivalent to a batch of 3 dozen cookies. Stage A: Dough preparation Stage B: Cooking (with three machines B1, B2, B3 identical) Stage C: Step C1: Packing (simultaneous with C2) Step C2: Creating digital record (simultaneous with C1) B1 5 min/unit c1 4 min/unit B2 WIP 2 min/unit 5 min/unit 2 min/unit 5 min/unit C2 B3 With this information, please answer questions 5 to 13 below. Question 5 4 pts What is the capacity of Stage A in units/hour? Question 6 4 pts What is the capacity of Stage B in units/hour? Question 7 4 pts What is the capacity of Stage C in units/hour? Question 8 4 pts Which stage is the bottleneck? Stage A Stage B Stage C Question 9 4 pts What is the capacity of the entire process? Question 10 4 pts What is the utilization of Stage A? Answer as a percentage. Question 11 4 pts What is the utilization of Stage B? Answer as a percentage. Question 12 4 pts What would be the new process capacity (in units per hour) if they cut the cycle time of Step C1 by half? Question 13 6 pts What would be the minimum throughput time of this whole cookie-making process if they cut the cycle time of Step C1 by half? Report in minutes

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