Peas (case study)

by Stuart Chambers and Tammy Helander

1.Which is the bottleneck process, and how is this managed to maximise throughput?

2.(a) What is the design capacity of the overall operation

(b) What is the effective capacity?

(c) Calculate the efficiency and utilisation for the operation over the current years pea season. Should this give a good indication of the factory performance for example in benchmarking against other factories in the group such as frozen pizza manufacturing

3. Summarise the reasona why capacity is lost on some days in mid-season. What could be done to reduce this problem

4. Do you think that John Lincoln's desire to extend the pea harvest period is the best strategy for the overall operation?

5. Prepare graphs showing

(a) the daily output compared to design and effective capacity

(b) Cumulative output compared to Cumulative design and effective capacity