Operations Management, Student Value Edition
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Author: Jay Heizer
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Chapter 7.S, Problem 12P
The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is Illustrated in Figure 57.8 It has two machines at station 1 in parallel (i.e., the product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2).
- a. What is the throughput t1me of this work cell?
- b. What is the bottleneck time of this work cell?
- c. What is the bottleneck station?
Figure S7.8
- d. If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell?
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