Moon Company is manufacturing the plastic sheets into products A, B and C using three process that is mixing, processing and smoothing. Raw materials for the plastic is first mixed then processed and finally smoothing.

The processing capacity varies for each process and the factory manager has provided the following data:

Processing time per meter in hours

Product-Red Product-Blue Product-Yellow

Mixing 0.50 0.50 0.40

Processing 0.25 0.40 0.25

Smoothing 0.40 0.25 0.25

The factory operating for 225,000 hours.

Identify the bottleneck process and explain why this process is described as a bottleneck