Posted: March 9th, 2017

Which operation is the bottleneck? b) What is the bottleneck time? c) What is the throughput time of the overall system? d) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 20 days p

A production process at Kenneth Day Manufacturing is shown in the following figure. The drilling operation occurs separately from, and simultaneously with, the sawing and sanding operations. A product needs to go through only one of the three assembly operations (the operations are in parallel). a) Which operation is the bottleneck? b) What is the bottleneck time? c) What is the throughput time of the overall system? d) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 20 days p