A production line at V. J.​ Sugumaran's machine shop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in 6 minutes. The second station has two identical​ machines, each of which can process a unit in 16 minutes​ (each unit only needs to be processed on one of the two machines). The third station can process a unit in 10 minutes. What is the bottleneck station with its bottleneck time in minutes per unit? Please be thorough with the answer you'll argue. Thank you in advance.

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A production line at V. J.​ Sugumaran's machine shop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in 6 minutes. The second station has two identical​ machines, each of which can process a unit in 16 minutes​ (each unit only needs to be processed on one of the two machines). The third station can process a unit in 10 minutes.

What is the bottleneck station with its bottleneck time in minutes per unit? Please be thorough with the answer you'll argue. Thank you in advance.

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