Question: You are analyzing a production line. There are five processes, labeled A through E , and your widgets start at Process A , then go

You are analyzing a production line. There are five processes, labeled A through E, and your widgets start at Process A, then go to Process B, C, D, and E. The process map looks a bit like this:
Start -> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> Finish.
You have the following process information:
Process A requires 10 minutes per widget.
Process B does 4 widgets per hour.
Process C does 4.6 widgets per hour.
Process D can do 28 widgets per 8-hour shift.
Process E takes 16 minutes per widget.
What is the process time of the system? Blank 1 minutes per widget. (Please round to the nearest integer; if you would like to enter 12.345, please type in a 12.)
Which process is the bottleneck? Blank 2
If you tied yourself to a widget just as it started Process A, how many minutes later would you find yourself done with Process E? Blank 3 minutes. (Please round to the nearest integer; if you would like to enter 12.345, please type in a 12. Hint: this is another way of asking for the throughput time.)
Would it help make more widgets per day if we could speed up Process A by one minute per widget? Blank 4.(Please enter yes or no).
Say we didn't end up changing Process A after all. If we could speed Process D up by 5 minutes per widget, what would the new process time of the system be? Blank 5 minutes. (Please round to the nearest integer; if you would like to enter 12.345, please type in a 12.)
Say we did speed up Process D by those 5 minutes per widget. Where is the bottleneck of the system now? Blank 6

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