Bryan Inc. produces a specialty top-quality juice machine. The product, the JM50, requires four manufacturing processes: Exterior Construction, Pulp Filter Insertion, Painting, and Packaging. Each process is performed at separate workstations with different completion rates: Exterior Construction can manufacture 100,000 juicer exteriors per day. Pulp Filter Insertion can install 24,000 filters every 6 hours. Painting can paint 3,000 juicers every half hour. Packaging can package 5,000 juicers per hour. The plant operates 24 hours a day, every day of the week.

a. Calculate production (output) per day for each of the four manufacturing processes based on the information above.

b. Which of the four manufacturing processes is the bottleneck? Explain why based on your analysis on part a.

c. What actions can firms take to remove bottlenecks from manufacturing processes?