A production process at Kenneth Day Manufacturing is shown in the figure. The drilling operation occurs separately from, and simultaneously with, the sawing and sanding, which are independent sequential operations. The product then goes to the welding station and finally the product needs to go through only one of the three assembly operations (the operations are in parallel). The capacity of the sawing station is 2.4 units per hour. The capacity of the sanding station is 1.8 units per hour. The capacity of the drilling station is 7 units per hour. The capacity of the welding station is 6 units per hour. Each of the three assembly stations has a capacity of 0.7 units per hour. a) Sanding is the bottleneck. b) The bottleneck time is 33.33 minutes per unit c) The throughput time of the overall system is = ? ? ? minutes (round your response to two decimal places).
A production process at Kenneth Day Manufacturing is shown in the figure. The drilling operation occurs separately from, and simultaneously with, the sawing and sanding, which are independent sequential operations. The product then goes to the welding station and finally the product needs to go through only one of the three assembly operations (the operations are in parallel). The capacity of the sawing station is 2.4 units per hour. The capacity of the sanding station is 1.8 units per hour. The capacity of the drilling station is 7 units per hour. The capacity of the welding station is 6 units per hour. Each of the three assembly stations has a capacity of 0.7 units per hour. a) Sanding is the bottleneck. b) The bottleneck time is 33.33 minutes per unit c) The throughput time of the overall system is = ? ? ? minutes (round your response to two decimal places).
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A production process at Kenneth Day Manufacturing is shown in the figure. The drilling operation occurs separately from, and simultaneously with, the sawing and sanding, which are independent sequential operations. The product then goes to the welding station and finally the product needs to go through only one of the three assembly operations (the operations are in parallel).
The capacity of the sawing station is 2.4 units per hour.
The capacity of the sanding station is 1.8 units per hour.
The capacity of the drilling station is 7 units per hour.
The capacity of the welding station is 6 units per hour.
Each of the three assembly stations has a capacity of 0.7 units per hour.
a) Sanding is the bottleneck.
b) The bottleneck time is 33.33 minutes per unit
c) The throughput time of the overall system is
= ? ? ?
minutes (round your response to two decimal places).
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d) If the firm operates 11 hours per day, 20 days per month, the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process is ??? units (enter your response as a whole number).
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