Practice Process Analysis Questions Consider this process for the manufacturing of clothes for Zara. Blanks stored in raw material inventory are cut and then sewed and put in finished goods inventory. There is no buffer between cutting and sewing. Cutting Sewing Blanks FGI 90 shirts/hr 120 shirts.hr 1. What is the capacity of this process? 2. What is the cycle time at the non-bottleneck operation? 3. Is any task starved or blocked? Explain. 4. What proportion of the time is the operator at the cutting station actually working? At the sewing station? 5. Is this a make-to-stock or a make-to-order system? 6. How long does it take from the time a blank is pulled from RM inventory to the time it is placed in finished goods inventory? 7. What is the throughput time in this process? 8. What is the WIP of this process? 9. Suppose a buffer with a capacity of 200 is placed between cutting and sewing. Are the following true or false? If false, why? [i] Once the process starts functioning, the inventory in this buffer will increase until it hits 200 and then stay at that level. [ii] The capacity of this process will increase. [iii] The throughput time in this system will increase. [iv] The WIP will decrease. 10. Answer the same questions for the process depicted below. Cutting Sewing Blanks FGI