T. Smunt Manufacturing Corp. has the process displayed below. The drilling operation occurs separately from and simultaneously with the sawing and sanding operations. The product only needs to go through one of the three assembly operations (the assembly operations are parallel and identical). Sawing 15 min/unit Sanding 15 min/unit Drilling 27 min/unit Welding 25 min/unit Assembly 78 min/unit Assembly 78 min/unit Assembly 78 min/unit (1) Which operation is the bottleneck? What is the system time? (2) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 20 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process?

T. Smunt Manufacturing Corp. has the process displayed below. The drilling operation occurs separately from and simultaneously with the sawing and sanding operations. The product only needs to go through one of the three assembly operations (the assembly operations are parallel and identical). (1) Which operation is the bottleneck? What is the system time? (2) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 20 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process? (1) Which operation is the bottleneck? What is the system time? (2) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 20 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process? (3) What is the process cycle time? (4) Suppose that a second drilling machine is added with exact the same station processing time ( 27min/unit ). Which operation is the new bottleneck? What is the new system time? What is the new process cycle time