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Dave's sandwich ship has an average demand of 1 4 0 sandwiches ( units ) per hour. Station 1 takes the order and prepares the

Dave's sandwich ship has an average demand of 140 sandwiches (units) per hour.
Station1 takes the order and prepares the bread. Processing time is 33 seconds per unit.
Station2 applies the meat, cheese and sauce. Processing time is 43 seconds per unit.
Station3 applies the vegies and gets payment from the customer. Processing time is 35 seconds per unit.
Demand is 140.
We already calculated Capacity per sec for each station: 1/33,1/43,1/35 respectfully. We calculated the Capacity per hour for eash Station: 3600/33=109.09,3600/43=83.72,3600/35=102.86 respectfully (3600 is amount of seconds in 1 hour).
1. What is the process capacity?
2. What is the flow rate of the process?
3. What is the cycle time of the process?
Ideally need formulas in Excel.
Process capacity =3600/43 is NOT right.

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