The three-station work cell illustrated in the figure below has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2.

Station 1Machine AStation 1Machine BStation 2Station 3Capacity: 20 units/hrCapacity: 20 units/hrCapacity:5 units/hrCapacity:12 units/hr

A three-station work cell has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2 and then on to station 3. Both Machine A and Machine B at Station 1 have a capacity of 20 units per hour. Station 2 has a capacity of 5 units per hour. Station 3 has a capacity of 12 units per hour.

Part 2

a) The bottleneck time of the system is

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minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).

Part 3

b)

Station 3

Station 2

Station 1

is the bottleneck station.

Part 4

c) The throughput time is

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minutes (enter your response as a whole number).

Part 5

d) If the firm operates

10

hours per day, 5 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is

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units (enter your response as a whole number).