Specialty Smells, Inc. uses a four$-$step process to manufacture their super$-$luxurious "Essence of Luxury" brand of perfume. The process consists of $($A$)$ measuring the ingredients, $($B$)$ mixing the ingredients, $($C$)$ filling the bottle, and $($D$)$ putting the lid on the bottle.

Assume there is one person at each of the four steps, as diagrammed below. Each person processes one bottle of perfume at a time. Your team has asked to reallocate the workload from the current process pictured below to a new process pictured as the "proposed process" and you must determine how this will affect the capacity of the system.

Capacity is always a measure of a quantity produced during a given time period $($a rate$).$

Assume here that the processes are in "steady state", meaning each step is already working on a product and does not have to wait on the first product to come through the line.