Question: Station 2 Machine A Station 4 Machine A 60 min/unit Station 1 Station 3 Station 4 Machine B 60 min/unit Station 2 Machine B Station

Station 2 Machine A Station 4 Machine A 60
Station 2 Machine A Station 4 Machine A 60
Station 2 Machine A Station 4 Machine A 60
Station 2 Machine A Station 4 Machine A 60 min/unit Station 1 Station 3 Station 4 Machine B 60 min/unit Station 2 Machine B Station 4 Machine C 60 min/unit A manufacturing plant has four stations in the assembly line (illustrated in the image above). A unit needs to be processed at either Machine A or Machine B for Station 2 (parallel lines, both lines doing the exact same thing). The box is then processed at Station 3. After that, the unit needs to be processed at either Machine A, Machine B or Machine C in Station 4 (parallel lines, all lines doing the exact same thing) before leaving the production line. The process times of the individual stations/machines are shown as follows. Station 1: 18 minutes Station 2: Machine A, 54 minutes; Machine B, 54 minutes Station 3: 17 minutes Station 4: 60 minutes for each machine (as shown in the flowchart) Suppose that the input rate to the process is equal to the capacity of the whole process. What is the utilization of Machine A at Station 2? Note: Enter your answer as a percentage humber, but do not include the % symbol. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places. For example, if your answer is 12.345%, enter 12.35 Your Answer: Answer Consider a manufacturing process depicted by the following flowchart. A1 C1 AZ B C2 A3 Station A has 3 parallel operators, A1, A2, and A3. Station Chas 2 parallel opertors, C1 and C2. Each unit only needs to be processed by one of the operators A1, A2 and A3. After being processed at Station B, a unit then needs to be processed by either C1 or C2. The process time of the individual operators are given as follows. A1, A2, and A3: 17 minutes B: 12 minutes C1 and C2: 4 minutes. What is the process time (in minutes) of the whole process? Round your final answer to 2 decimal places if it is not a whole number

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