The Pullman Mfg., Inc., three-station work cell illus- trated in Figure S7.8 has two machines at station 1 in parallel (The product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station
The manager, Ms. Hartley, has asked you to evaluate the system if she adds a parallel machine at station
a) What is the throughput time of the new work cell?
b) what is the bottleneck time of the new work cell?
c) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, what the weekly capacity of this work cello is.
