What are the performance problems facing receiving plant No$.1($RP$1)?$ Describe the performance problems, not the underlying causes, and discuss which are more important by roughly estimating their impact on profits.

$($~ $6$ pts$)$

Draw a Process Flow Diagram of the cranberry process beginning with Receiving and ending with the Bailey Mills $($i$.$e$.,$ no need to show Bulking and Bagging at the end of the process$).($~$5$ pts$)$

Compute the Capacity in barrels per hour of each process step. $($~ $5$ pts$)$

Consider a peak harvest day $(16,800$ barrels of berries unloaded with $70\%$ of them wet harvested$).$ Assume that trucks arrive uniformly over a period of $12$ hours. Identify the Bottleneck of the process by calculating$/$estimating the implied utilization of each process step. $($~ $6$ pts$)$

When would processing be completed on such a peak harvest day? $($~ $4$ pts$)$

When would the last truck unload and how long would it have waited?

$($~ $4$ pts$)$

If you were Hugh Schaeffer, what changes would you make to improve performance of the process? Estimate the magnitude $($in $$)$ of the costs and benefits of each of your proposed changes. $($Hint: Is there a difference in benefits offered by the first dryer and the second dryer?$)($~ $7$ pts$)$

These qns are based on the national cranberry cooperative $1996$ case stduy,