Question: Question content area Part 1 The Pullman Mfg., Inc. three-station work cell illustrated in the figure below has two machines at station 1 in parallel.
Question content area Part 1 The Pullman Mfg., Inc. three-station work cell illustrated in the figure below has two machines at station 1 in parallel. (The product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2.) Station 1 Machine A Station 1 Machine B Station 2 Station 3 12 min/unit 12 min/unit 4 min/unit 12 min/unit A three-station work cell has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2 and then on to station 3. Both Machine A and Machine B at Station 1 take 12 minutes per unit. Station 2 takes 4 minutes per unit. Station 3 takes 12 minutes per unit. The manager, Seimone Hartley, has asked you to evaluate the system if she adds a parallel machine at station .
Part 2 a) The throughput time of the new work cell is 28 minutes (enter your response as a whole number).
Part 3 b) The bottleneck time of the new work cell is 6 minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).
Part 4 c) If the firm operates11 hours per day, 6 days per week, the weekly capacity of the work cell with the second machine at workstation is___ enter your response here units (enter your response as a whole number).
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