Question: Tinyfield Labs' first process is performed at a bottleneck station that has 5 identical machines working on a NON-batched process. A job can be taken

Tinyfield Labs' first process is performed at a bottleneck station that has 5 identical machines working on a NON-batched process. A job can be taken by any one of the unoccupied machines and needs to be processed by only one of the machines at this station. It takes a machine on average 5 hours to process a job. Average job arrival rate (demand) at Tinyfield is 16 jobs per day. It is observed that the average WIP at this station that includes jobs occupying machines as well as jobs waiting in front of the station, is stablized at 12 jobs as a long run average. How long does a job needs to spend at this station?

5 hours

18 hours

0.75 hour

25 hours

tation?

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