Assignment task: A process at Artemis Industries for making award trophies for Gies learners consists of two tasks in sequence:
- Molding, requiring 5 minutes for a trophy (also referred to as a unit)
- Polishing, requiring 6 minutes for a trophy
Based on the information provided, please calculate and report what is the individual capacity (making sure to indicate for your final response: units per minute, or units per hour) of Task 1: Molding. That is, how many units can the Molding task process per minute or per hour?
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Based on the information provided, please calculate and report what is the individual capacity (making sure to indicate for your final response: units per minute, or units per hour) of Task 2: Polishing. That is, how many units can the Polishing task process per minute or per hour?
Which of the tasks in the two-task trophy making process is the bottleneck task?
If a second workstation, identical to the first one in terms of the time taken per unit, is added to the Polishing task, please re-calculate and report what will be the new capacity for this task (m
That is, how many units will the Polishing task with two identical workstations now be able to process per minute or per hour?
Treat the quantitative information provided below as fresh information.
You are given the observed flow rate of the trophy making process to be 12 trophies per hour. You are also given the throughput time for a trophy to be completed through its two-task process to be 11 minutes.
Please calculate and report, based on the information provided, the average number of units that are in the process at a time.