Question: Trojan Laptops offers custom - made laptops. One assembly worker can put together any laptop from its component parts in 1 hour. Then, the laptops

Trojan Laptops offers custom-made laptops. One assembly worker can put together any
laptop from its component parts in 1 hour. Then, the laptops must be packaged and
made ready for shipping, which takes one employee 10 minutes. There are 30
employees devoted to assembly and 15 employees devoted to packaging.
a. What is the capacity of Trojan laptops, in laptops per hour? (4 points)
b. Suppose 100 custom-made laptops are ordered by students each day, and
Trojan Laptops is open 6 hours a day. What is the utilization of the process?
(6 points)
c. Suppose that Trojan laptop employees are flexible, and that all of them can do
either assembly or packaging. Now, what is the capacity of Trojan laptops, in
laptops per hour? (4 points)
d.(Ignore question c) Suppose Trojan Laptops steeply discounts its laptops, and
now receives 150 orders a day, with the same capacity as in question b). What
is its implied utilization? (3 pts)
e. Suppose Trojan Laptops is very busy at the beginning of the semester: Trojan
Laptops now receives 140 orders per day. Using the implied utilization found in
Question d., what is the new process capacity? (3 pts)

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