Question: Scenario A: Suppose you are given the following sequential process. Throughput times are shown in parentheses. There are no inventory buffers between tasks, so upstream

Scenario A:

Suppose you are given the following sequential process. Throughput times are shown in parentheses. There are no inventory buffers between tasks, so upstream tasks must wait if downstream tasks are busy.

Task 1 (5 minutes) ----> Task 2 (4 minutes) ----> Task 3 (10 minutes)

Task 1 can handle 2 customers at once; Task 2 can handle 1 customer at a time; Task 3 can handle 5 customers at a time.

What is the throughput time (in minutes) for the entire process (from the start of Task 1 through the end of Task 3)? Pick the closest answer.

Group of answer choices

5

10

15

20

Refer to Scenario A:

What is the cycle time for Task 3 in minutes? Pick the closest answer.

Group of answer choices

.5

2

4

5

10

25

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What is the throughput capacity for Task 1 in customers per minute? Pick the closest answer.

Group of answer choices

.1

.2

.3

.4

1

2

3

10

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Which task(s) would be the bottleneck(s)?

Group of answer choices

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Tasks 1 & 2

Tasks 1 & 3

Tasks 2 & 3

Please answer all I will give up vote

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