Assignment:
Furniture Foce Lift refinishes old wood furniture. Their process for refinishing chairs has 7 workers and 4 stations. Each chair starts at the stripping station, then goes to Priming, then to Painting and finally to inspection. Where there are multiple workers within a station, each worker works independently on his/her own chair. Assume inventory buffers are allowed between each station.
| Station |
Staffing |
Processing time (hours per chair per woked) |
| Stripping |
2 |
2.5 |
| Priming |
2 |
1.5 |
| Painting |
2 |
1.75 |
| Inspection |
1 |
0.8 |
What is the maximum number of chairs per hour that can be produced? Assume they start the day with inventory at each station to work on. (The accuracy should be of two digits after the decimal places.)
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.