A production line at Generic Corp's has 5 stations. The first can process a unit in 11 minutes. station one then feeds station two, which takes 7 minutes. Station three then begins and operates simultaneously with station two. Station 3 takes 12 minutes. Both stations two and three feed station four which can process a unit in 9 minutes. Station four then feeds station five (the final assembly point), which takes 15 minutes.

a. Which is the bottleneck station?

b. How much time is the bottleneck?

c. What is the throughput time for one unit to go through the process?

d. What is the daily capacity if the company operates 2 shifts (8 hours per shift)?