1. A computer factory has the process diagram below. The operations in monitor department and main machine department occur separately and simultaneously. The three assembly lines are identical, and the two packaging lines are identical too. The product only needs to go through one of these identical operations.
2. which operation is the bottleneck?
3. what is the systems process time? Process cycle time?
4. if the firm operate 8 hours a day, 20 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the process.
5. suppose a second identical station of Main Machine is added, (1) what is the new bottleneck? (2) what is the new process time of the system? What is the new process cycle time?