Question: What are the problems facing receiving plant No . 1 ( RP 1 ) ? Draw a Process Flow Diagram of the cranberry process beginning

What are the problems facing receiving plant No.1(RP1)?
Draw a Process Flow Diagram of the cranberry process beginning with Receiving and ending with the Bailey Mills (i.e., ignore Sorting and Shipping at the end of the process).
Compute the Capacity in barrels per hour of each process step.
Consider a peak harvest day (18,000 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.

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