the 4 station work cell illustrated below has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 before proceeding to station 2

a) what is the bottleneck station

b)what is the bottleneck time in minutes?

what is the throughput time in minutes

c) if the firm operates 10 hours per day, 5 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell in units/ week ?

d) to which station they should add a parallel machine to increase the capacity

e) when a parallel machine is added to station determined in part (d), by how much capacity will increase in percent

The four station worked astrated as a product that most or through one of the two machines at station they are paralleletore Station 1 10 min/unit Station 3 20 min/unit Station 2 8 min/unit C Station 4 12 min/unit Station 1 10 min/unit Station 3 20 min/unit