Question: ONLY QUESTION 3 PLEASE! Hit Flip Inc. is a skateboard manufacturer that supplies skateboard decks to specialty skateboard stores. With skateboarding being the fastest growing

ONLY QUESTION 3 PLEASE! Hit Flip Inc. is a skateboard manufacturer thatsupplies skateboard decks to specialty skateboard stores. With skateboarding being the fastestONLY QUESTION 3 PLEASE!

Hit Flip Inc. is a skateboard manufacturer that supplies skateboard decks to specialty skateboard stores. With skateboarding being the fastest growing sport among children 1018 years, the company is experiencing demand that greatly exceeds capacity for these specialty boards. The process steps are given below: Specifically, the boards, or "decks", are purchased from The company has 5 patterns that are painted on the decks. The lithography in batches according to setup (to change from one pattern to another), so decks are proces on the pattern. After painting, the decks are loaded onto a pallet (a device to hold a batch of decks) and dried using an ultraviolet lamp. The pallet is not placed under the lamp until all decks in a batch have been painted. The lamp can dry up to 50 decks at one time. The activity times per deck are as follows: Sanding: 3 minutes per deck Painting: 20 minutes setup, and 2 minutes per deck Trvina: 30 minutes for the batch regardless of the batch size 2. Assume the following average inventory in sanding, the buffer, painting, and drying: Sanding: 1 batch Buffer: 2 batches Painting: 1 batch Drying: 1 batch What is the average flow time from the start of sanding until the decks leave the drying area with a batch size of 50 decks? Assume that the process is running at its capacity. ( 6 points) 3. At what batch size will sanding and painting both be bottlenecks? ( 6 points)

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