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

Use this information to answer the next 3 questions. All answers are in customers and/or minutes, where appropriate.

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

2. What is the cycle time for Task 2?

3. What is the throughput capacity for Task 1? Pick the closest answer.