During a typical week, hospital surgery department has 12 operating room (OR) hours, 48 surgeons, and 40 nurses. To conduct a surgery for a patient, the needed resources are:

2 operating room hours per surgery

4 surgeons per surgery

5 nurses per surgery to support the surgeon

Based on our resource capacities, how many patients can receive a surgery at the same time? (in other words, what is the maximum output?)

Answer = Surgeries / Week

What is the utilization of each of the resources at the maximum output? (Approximate your answers to four decimal places)

Utilization_OR-Hours = %

Utilization_Surgeons = %

Utilization_Nurses = %

Which is the bottleneck resource? In other words, which resource runs out, and prevents us from conducting more surgeries?

Bottleneck: OR Hours Surgeons Nurses (Select One of these)

If I could hire 3 additional surgeons, whats the new system capacity and new utilization of Surgeons?

New system capacity = Surgeries/Hour

New utilization of Surgeons = %

Instead, if I could increase operating hours by 14 hours, whats the new system capacity and new utilization of OR Hours? In that case, which resource is the new bottleneck?

New system capacity = Surgeries/Hour

New utilization of OR Hours = %

New bottleneck: OR Hours Surgeons Nurses (select One)