Tyler's Tire Company

Tyler$$s Tire's R&D department is always looking for great ideas for new tires. To go from $$Idea Generated$$ to $$Idea Approved$,$ the idea must go through $5$ stages:

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Observe that $20\%$ of the ideas are rejected after the Initial Screening, $40\%$ of the ideas are rejected after the Focus Group stage, and $10\%$ of the ideas are rejected after the Final Decision stage.

The following table summarizes the time taken per idea by each employee and the number of employees staffing each resource. Everyone works $8$ hours per day, i$.$e$.,$ in your calculations, assume $1$ day equals $8$ hours:

Number of employees

Time per idea

Initial Screening

$2$

$2$ hours

Mock$-$up

$20$

$4$ days

Safety Testing

$7$

$2$ days

Focus Group

$1$

$3$ hours

Final Decision

$1$

$4$ hours

Flag question: Spacer

When calculating implied utilizations, assume that $2$ new ideas are generated each day at the Idea Generated stage $($before Initial Screening$).$ When calculating capacities for resources, please recall that $1$ day equals $8$ hours.

Flag question: Question $1$

Question $11$ pts

What is the capacity of the Safety Testing stage in ideas$/$day$?$