A team of students work in a project for? A.J.\'s Wildlife Emporium to decide th

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A team of students work in a project for? A.J.'s Wildlife Emporium to decide the production plan of two unique birdfeeders? (Deluxe and Super? Duper) produced by the company. The productes are manufactured and assembled in up to three different workstations? (X, Y, and? Z) using a small batch process. Each of the products is produced according to the flowchart below.? Additionally, the flowchart indicates each? product's price, weekly? demand, and processing times per unit. Batch setup times are negligible. A.J. can make and sell up to the limit of its weekly demand and there are no penalties for not being able to meet all of the demand. The plant operates 40 hours per? week, with no overtime.

The team have already conducted preliminary analysis of the? bottleneck-based method. They found that Station X is the bottleneck.? Furthermore, by calculating the? per-minute profit margin of each? product, they concluded that the company should first schedule the production of Deluxe. Complete the rest of the analysis by finding out the production quantity of each product.

?(Enter your responses as whole? numbers.)

Deluxe: _____ units/week

Super Duper: ______ units/week

Explanation / Answer

After producing 61 Delux, 1607 minutes will be left in X.

So, maximum possible production of Super Duper = 1607 / 27 = 59

Answer:

Deluxe: 61 units/week
Super Duper: 59 units/week

Produce 61 out of 61 Delux X Y Z Time available before 2400 2400 2400 Minutes taken to produce 13 x 61 = 793 16 x 61 = 976 27 x 61 = 1647 Time available after 1607 1424 753

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