Operations Management
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ISBN: 9780136860419
Author: Lee Krajewski
Publisher: Pearson Education
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Chapter 7.S, Problem 9P
A production line at V. J. Sugumaran’s machine shop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in 10 minutes. The second station has two identical machines, each of which can process a unit in 12 minutes. (Each unit only needs to be processed on one of the two machines.) The third stat1on can process a unit in 8 minutes. Which station is the bottleneck station?
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