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A bread-making factory has the production process shown in the figure. There are five operations in sequence. The product only needs to go through one of the parallel machines in each case where parallel machines exist. (a) What is the bottleneck operation of this process? (b) What is the flow time of this process (assuming no waiting)? (c) Assume 8 hours per day, 7 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of the process? Ignore startup or shutdown times, i.e., assume the bottleneck operation can work the entire 8 hours each day. (d) If another machine is added to the Cut operation, what are the new flow time and the new weekly capacity of this process? Mix 50 min/batch Mix 50 min/batch Proof 60 min/batch Proof 60 min/batch Proof 60 min/batch Bake 60 min. batch Bake 60 min batch Cut 35 min./batch Pack 40 min./batch Pack 40 min./batch A bread-making factory has the production process shown in the figure. There are five operations in sequence. The product only needs to go through one of the parallel machines in each case where parallel machines exist. (a) What is the bottleneck operation of this process? (b) What is the flow time of this process (assuming no waiting)? (c) Assume 8 hours per day, 7 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of the process? Ignore startup or shutdown times, i.e., assume the bottleneck operation can work the entire 8 hours each day. (d) If another machine is added to the Cut operation, what are the new flow time and the new weekly capacity of this process? Mix 50 min/batch Mix 50 min/batch Proof 60 min/batch Proof 60 min/batch Proof 60 min/batch Bake 60 min. batch Bake 60 min batch Cut 35 min./batch Pack 40 min./batch Pack 40 min./batch

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