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OperationsManagement Exercise

The capacity of the process is 1.5 units per minute as station B is the bottleneck. The capacity does not increase despite improvements to station D, as the bottleneck of station A limits the process to 8 units per minute. A process flow diagram shows station A feeding into station B, then station C, and finally station D.

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OperationsManagement Exercise

The capacity of the process is 1.5 units per minute as station B is the bottleneck. The capacity does not increase despite improvements to station D, as the bottleneck of station A limits the process to 8 units per minute. A process flow diagram shows station A feeding into station B, then station C, and finally station D.

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Homework 1 Operations Management

1. What is the capacity of this process (in units per minute)?

A B C
Station time 30s 80s 20s
Units 1 2 1
Units/min 2 1,5 3

The capacity of this process is 1,5 units per minute, as the second station (B) is the
bottleneck of the process.

2. By how much does the capacity of the entire process increase in units per min?

D
A B C D (improve
d)
s/unit 0,25 0,33 0,2 0,5 0,25
Units/min/wor
4 3 5 2 4
ker
N workers 2 3 2 4 4

Units/min 8 9 10 8 16

The capacity of the entire process does not increase. The bottleneck of the process is
the first step (A), which produces only 8units/min. Therefore, no matter how many
units per minute activity D can produce, it is dependent on the units per minute
arriving from the previous steps, and that is 8 units/min.

3. Provide the process flow diagram of this process.

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