Question: Question 6 (19 points): Consider a beverage production. Final assemble is done by using filled water bottles and the blue water caps. In the final

Question 6 (19 points): Consider a beverage

Question 6 (19 points): Consider a beverage production. Final assemble is done by using filled water bottles and the blue water caps. In the final assembling caps are pressed on the filled water bottles. There are 8 machines, and each can produce 75 bottles per hour. They buy the water bottle caps from the outside and they can buy it whenever they want with unlimited amount. Other stage is the filling process where the bottles are filled with water. There are 7 machines, and each machine can fill 100 bottles per hour. This company works 8 hours per day, 5 days in a week. a. Draw a flowchart of this process. (5 points) b. Determine the weekly capacity of the entire process. Are the capacities of all the processes balanced? (5 points) C. If there are no buffers in the facility where would you add a buffer, between which processes and why? (4 points) d. If the company add a second shift for the assembling process, what would be the new weekly capacity? Which process is experience starving? (5 points) e. Bonus question: Consider that the weekly demand is 30.000. Is there a capacity cushion? Do we need additional machines to meet the demand if yes, what is the technical number of machines we need for each process (consider the part d, with second shift for assembly)? (4 points)

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