Assignment:
A production process at Kenneth Day Manufacturing is shown in the figure below. The drilling operation occurs separately from, and simultaneously with, the sawing and sanding, which are independent sequential operations. A product needs to go through only one of the three assembly operations (the operations are in parallel).
A.) What is the bottleneck effect?
B.) The bottleneck time is minutes per unit (round up to two decimal places)
C.) What is the throughput time of the overall system
D.) If the firm operates 8 hours a day, 20 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process?
Please show work/ explain.