FACULTY OF BUSINESS \& MANAGEMENT SCIENCES Department of Operations Management ASSIGNMENT 2: OPERATIONS MANANGEMENT 2 (PRB260S) QUESTION 1 On the work cell below, three fabrication operations run in parallel, such that each batch of 30 units only needs to go through one of the three fabrication operations. After that, each batch needs to go through both assembly operations, which occur simultaneously (specifically, 15 components are made for each unit in the fabrication stage-some components are then assembled in the Assembly 1 area while others are assembled in the Assembly 2 area). The units are packaged and made ready for shipment in the final stage. 1.1 What is the bottleneck operation? Why? 1.2 What is the Bottleneck time? 1.3 Calculate the throughput time? 1.4 If the firm operates 8 hours a day, 6 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell? 1.6 What is the yearly capacity of this work cell? QUESTION 2 The Cape Peninsula University of Technology business program has the facilities and faculty to handle an enrollment of 3000 new students per year. However, in an effort to limit class sizes to a "reasonable" level (under 200 , generally); the Dean of the faculty placed a celling on enrollment of 2000 new students. Although there was ample demand for business courses last semester, conflicting schedules allowed only 1900 new students to take business courses. What are the efficiency and utilization of this system