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 station can process a unit in 8 minutes. Which station is the bottleneck station? ..$7.10 A work cell at Chris Ellis Commercial Laundry has a workstation with two machines, and each unit produced at the sta- tion needs to be processed by both of the machines. (The same unit cannot be worked on by both machines simultaneously.) Each machine has a production capacity of 4 units per hour. What is the process time of the work cell in minutes per unit? ..$7.11 The three-station work cell illustrated in Figure $7.7, has a product that must go through one of the two machines at sta- tion 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2.

a) What is the process time of the system?

b) What is the bottleneck time of this work cell?

c) What is the process cycle time?

d) If the firm operates 10 hours per day, 5 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell? ..