1. A manufacturing company produces electronic gadgets. The company has a resource pool of 10 highly skilled technicians who work in two shifts, each lasting 8 hours, for a total of 16 hours of daily available operating time. The unit load for assembling one gadget is 2 hours.

1-1) Calculate the effective capacity of the company's resource pool in terms of the number of gadgets it can produce per day. (3 points)

1-2) The company has realized that the 2 hours of unit load includes some ineffective steps in the process, by eliminating which they could achieve an improved unit load of 90 minutes per gadget. What is the Theoretical Capacity of this resources pool, in case such improvements can be realized?

1-3) If the company in reality makes 60 gadgets per day, what is the level of capacity utilization for this resource pool?

1-4) What is the first step toward improving their throughput based on the numbers you have been given or calculated in the former sections of question 6?