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Georgette Scissors, a hair stylist, is about to open a hair salon in University City. The following data is taken from her business plan. Following

Georgette Scissors, a hair stylist, is about to open a hair salon in University City. The following data is taken from her business plan. Following the demand projection, one customer arrives every 20 minutes starting at 9AM with the last customer arriving at 5:40 pm. The customers arrive exactly every 20 minutes because they receive appointments (to simplify the analysis, you can assume that every customer shows up for her appointment and does so exactly on time). Customers arrive to a waiting area with unlimited capacity and then follow the same sequence of steps shown below:

Step 1: Color hair. 30 mins/customer.

Step 2: Sit under Bonnet dryer. This is a chair-mounted drying hood that does not require an attendant. 25 mins/customer

Step 3: Rinse hair. 15 mins/customer

Step 4: Cut hair. 20 mins/customer.

Step 5: Style hair. 15 mins/customer.

Step 6: Payment. 5 mins/customer.

Georgette will be solely in charge of cutting customers' hair (Step 4). Georgette will hire four workers to help her with coloring (Step 1), rinsing (Step 3), styling (Step 5) and collecting payments (Step 6). Each of these employees is exclusively dedicated to one of these four tasks. Georgette will also purchase one bonnet dryer for Step 2, which does not require a worker to be involved in the activity.

  1. (15 points) Draw a process flow diagram of the operations. Indicate the capacities of all operations. Also indicate the flow rate into and out of each operation. Be sure to identify the bottleneck of the process.

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