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Z. Wendrs Wonder Wagons Wendy's Wonder Wagons manufactures brightlyco|ored, battery-powered wagons that will be scattered about the streets of cities to allow people to haul groceries, dogs, and small children, Below is a simplified process flow diagram for production of the wagons. Forming Coating Drying Assembly 20 min (batch of h _ 14 units) 3 ours 15 min 10 min The forming machine takes 10 minutes to convert plastic pellets into a wagon body. The coating machine takes 20 minutes, and it spray coats (with a single color) up to four wagon bodies simultaneously. Wagon bodies then go to a drying room (with plenty of space) and air dry for 3 hours. Assembly takes 15 minutes to attach the wheels, power unit, and handle. Crosstrained workers are available so we don't need to worry about labor scheduling. We'll focus on steady state and not concern ourselves with start-up and shut down you can assume the production system operates non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Currently, Wendvs Wonder Wagons is making one unit of each color at a time e.g., a lime green wagon, then an iridescent puce wagon, then a luminous red wagon, etc. Assume they are running at full capacity. A. Base Case (steadystate, running at full capacity) ' What is the bottleneck task? What is the capacity of the production process, in wagons per 24-hour day? . What is the throughput time? ' . What Is the average number of wagon bodies in the drying room? B. Wendy would like to increase capacity, She wants you to evaluate the proposals below, For each, indicate the resulting production capacig (in wagons per 24-hour day), and the throughput time. Briefly indicate why it has changed (or not changed) from the base case, Be sure to provide any calculations you made, i, Acquire a second forming machine ii. Increase the batch size ofthe coating machine to 6 units, continuing to produce 1 unit of each color at a time. t Produce wagons in batches of4 lie, 4 sunshine yellow, then 4 ornery orange, etc) ' . Use a fast-drying coating material so the wagon bodies dry in only 10 minutes