The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is illustrated in the figure below. It has two machines at station 1 in parallel (i.e., the product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2).

Station 1Machine AStation 1Machine BStation 2Station 330 min/unit30 min/unit2 min/unit6 min/unit

A three-station work cell has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2 and then on to station 3. Both Machine A and Machine B at Station 1 take 30 minutes per unit. Station 2 takes 2 minutes per unit. Station 3 takes 6 minutes per unit.

a) The throughput time is

minutes (enter your response as a whole number).

b) The bottleneck time of this work cell is

minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).

c)

Station 3

Station 1

Station 2

is the bottleneck station.

d) If the firm operates

9

hours per day, 6 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is

units (enter your response as a whole number).