Question 1 Bianchi Bakery produces three brands of pie, X, Y, and Z that require processing on machines A, B, and C. The standard time in minutes, defect rates, rework rates, efficiency and reliability for machines A, B, and C are given respectively below. The company operates 5 days per week, 12 hours per day and experiences 36 minutes downtime per day. The company currently has 40 of each of the machine types (A, B, C, and D). How many more of the machines of each type A, B, C, D are needed to be procured? As an operations manager, is there any other strategy that you propose to avoid financial burden of procurement (briefly discuss)? Brand Production/Week 3000 Routing A+B+C+D BACD C>A>B>D Y 6000 Z 4500 Defect rate (%) Y Part Machine Machine A Z 1 6 Standard time (minutes) Y Z 9 6 12 15 6 12 6 9 15 6 9 12 B ox | 5 5 4 4 D 4 4 Efficiency (%) Reliability (%) Machine Z 65 A 85 Rework rate (%) X Y 65 65 70 70 75 75 80 80 B 70 75 80 90 90 95 90 95 85 D 95 Note: Rework rate = 1-defect rate; therefore, do not subtract it from 1