Question: please help:) Raw Material Inventory TASK-A (3 sec) TASK-B (17 sec) TASK-C (13 sec) TASK-D (7 sec) Finished Good Inventory Use the above information to

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Raw Material Inventory TASK-A (3 sec) TASK-B (17 sec) TASK-C (13 sec) TASK-D (7 sec) Finished Good Inventory Use the above information to answer the following questions: a) Assess which of the four tasks is the bottleneck for the system. Give reason. b) Determine the capacity (in units per hour) of the above system. Show working. c) Elegant Garment Company has received an order of 539,000 shirts for the next year. The company operates from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm per day, with an allowance of 30 minutes of loss of production time due to lunch, tea, fatigue, and rest breaks etc., 6 days per week, and 50 weeks per year. Evaluate the system's ability to handle the customer order (i.e. can the system handle this order or not). Show working. d) If the company wanted to add another (fifth) workstation, recommend the task that it should perform. Give reason. e) Determine the new capacity (in units per hour) of this system after adding the fifth workstation. Comment whether the modified system is able to handle the customer order

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