Operations Management
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Author: CACHON, Gérard, Terwiesch, Christian
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Consider a process consisting of three resources. Assume there exists unlimited demand for the product, and that all activities are always performed in the following sequence.
Resource 1 has a processing time of 6 minutes per unit.
Resource 2 has a processing time of 3 minutes per unit.
Resource 3 has a processing time of 5 minutes per unit.
All three resources are staffed by one worker and each worker gets paid $14 per hour. What is the average labor utilization in percent
Three employees at a fast-food restaurant each perform one of the three activities in serving a customer: take the order, process the order, and deliver the order. The processing time for each activity is given as follows:
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Take the order
30 seconds
Process the order
2 minutes
Deliver the order
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66.7%
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The bottleneck resource in a process has the least idle time. True or false?a. Trueb. False
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