The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is illustrated in the figure b
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The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is illustrated in the figure below. It has two machines at station 1 in parallel (i.e., the product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2).
a) The throughput time is _____ minutes (enter your response as a whole number).
b) The bottleneck time of this work cell is ____ minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).
c) ______is the bottleneck station.
d) If the firm operates 11 hours per day, 6 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is ____ units (enter your response as a wholenumber).
30 min/unit Station 1 Machine A Station 2 3 min/unit Station 1 Machine B 5 min/unit 30 min/unitExplanation / Answer
a) Throughput time is time required to pass through the process = 30+3+5 = 38min
b) Bottleneck time is (30/2) = 15 min per unit
c) Station 1 is the bottleneck point due to high cycle time
d) Total time in a week in minutes = 6*11*60 = 3960 minutes
Bottleneck time = 15minutes
Capacity = Total time/Bottleneck station time = 3960/15 = 264 units
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