A manufacturing process has four stations. Station 1 can process a unit in ten minutes. The…
A manufacturing process has four stations. Station 1 can process a unit in ten minutes. The second station takes five minutes. The third station has two identical machines, each of which can process the unit in fifteen minutes (each unit only needs to be processed in one of the two machines). Then the unit moves to assembly (Station 4), which takes eleven minutes. a. What area is the bottleneck? (Select] b. What is the bottleneck time? [Select] c. What is the throughput? (Select] d. What is the hourly capacity? (Select] e. What if an additional machine was added to Station 1, in parallel. What would the bottleneck station/time, and hourly capacity be? (Select)
