A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink Y

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A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink Yoggo. A bottling line puts the soft drinks into plastic bottles and then packages the bottles into boxes holding 10 bottles each. The bottling line is comprised of the following 4 steps: (1) the bottling machine takes 1 second to fill a bottle, (2) the lid machine takes 3 seconds to cover the bottle with a lid, (3) a labeling machine takes 3 seconds per bottle, and (4) the packaging machine takes 4 seconds to place a bottle into a box. When a box has been flled with 10 bottles, a worker tending the packaging ma and replace it with an empty box is negligible and hence does not affect the capacity of the line chine removes the filled box and replaces it with an empty box. Assume that the time for the worker to remove a filled box Number of machines Seconds per bottle Process step Bottling Apply a lid Labeling Packaging 3 3 4

Explanation / Answer

A.

Capacity of the resource apply a lid = 60*60/3 = 1200 bottles per hour

B.

Bottleneck in the process = Packaging (it lakes longest time to complete that is 4 second).

C.

Flow rate =60*60/bottleneck time = 60*60/ 4 = 900 bottles per hour

D.

Utilization rate of the apply a lid resource = 900/1200 = .75 or 75%

E.

Time to produce 500 bottles = 499*4 + 1*11 = 2007 seconds

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