Question 3.1

Consider the following process:

Resource	Processing Time (Min./Unit)	Number of workers
1	10	2
2	6	1
3	16	3

A. What is the bottleneck?

B. The process capacity is _______ units per hour [please use numerals to fill in the blank]

C. If demand is twelve units per hour, the utilization of each resource is:

Options:

Resource 1: 60%, Resource 2: 200%, Resource 3: 25%

Resource 1: 83.3%, Resource 2: 100%, Resource 3: 88.9%

Resource 1: 30%, Resource 2: 100%, Resource 3: 12.5%

Resource 1: 100%, Resource 2: 120%, Resource 3: 106.6%

D. If demand is twelve units per hour, the implied utilization of each resource is:

Options:

Resource 1: 60%, Resource 2: 200%, Resource 3: 25%

Resource 1: 30%, Resource 2: 100%, Resource 3: 12.5%

Resource 1: 83.3%, Resource 2: 100%, Resource 3: 88.9%

Resource 1: 100%, Resource 2: 120%, Resource 3: 106.6%