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#1 Affinity Toasters produces top-quality bagel and bun toasters. The Jessie Pri

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Question

#1 Affinity Toasters produces top-quality bagel and bun toasters. The Jessie Princess production process requires four sequential activities, construction, burner insertion, polishing, and packaging. Construction can make 100,000 toasters per day; burner insertion can install 25,000 burners every 6 hours, polishing can finish 3000 toasters every half hour, and packaging can finish 5,000 per hour.
Which activity is the constraint? There may be more than one constraint.



a. Exterior construction.

b. Burner insertion.

c. Polishing.

d. Packaging.

e. Both answers A and B are correct.

#2 Affinity Toasters produces top-quality bagel and bun toasters. The Jessie Princess production process requires four sequential activities, construction, burner insertion, polishing, and packaging. Construction can make 100,000 toasters per day; burner insertion can install 25,000 burners every 6 hours, polishing can finish 3000 toasters every half hour, and packaging can finish 5,000 per hour.
What's the least
amount of monthly capacity you would have to add to the bottleneck(s) to shift the bottleneck to a new function?


a. 1,000,000 toasters per month.

b. 600,000 toasters per month.

c. 200,000 toasters per month.

d. 440,000 toasters per month.

e. None of the above are correct.


Explanation / Answer

1) e. Both answers A and B are correct.

2) Per day calculation 8HRS PER month *30days construction 100,000 toasters per day 100,000 3000000 burner insertion 25,000 burners every 6 hours 4166(25000/6 per har)*8 = 33333 1000080 polishing 3000 toasters every half hour 3000*16(8*2) = 48000 1440000 packaging 5,000 per hour 5000*8 = 40000 1200000 This much minimum can increase: Per day calculation 8HRS PER month *30days construction 100,000 toasters per day 100,000 3000000 burner insertion 25,000 burners every 6 hours 4166(25000/6 per har)*8 = 33333 1000080 polishing 3000 toasters every half hour 3000*16(8*2) = 48000 1440000 packaging 5,000 per hour 5000*8 = 40000 1200000