Question: The four-station work cell illustrated below has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallely before

The four-station work cell illustrated below has

The four-station work cell illustrated below has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallely before proceeding to station 2, and one of the two machines at station 3 before proceeding to station 4 Station 1 15 min/unit Station 3 30 min/unit Station 2 12 min/unit Station 4 6 min/unit Station 1 15 min/unit Station 3 30 min/unit a. (1 pt) What is the bottleneck station? b. (1 pt) What is the bottleneck time in minutes? b. (2 pts) What is the throughput time in minutes? c (2 pts) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell in units/week? d. (2 pts) To which station they should add a parallel machine to increase the capacity? e. (2 pts) When a parallel machine is added to station determined in part(d), by how much the capacity will increase in percent? Previous page Next page MacBook Pro

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