The Pullman? Mfg., Inc.? three-station work cell illustrated in the figure below has two machines at station 1 in parallel.? (The product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station? 2.)
Station 1 Machine A: 20 mins/unit
Station 1: Machine B: 20 mins/unit
Station 2: 2 min/unit
Station 3: 12 min/unit
a) What is the throughput time of this work cell?
b) What is the bottleneck time of this work cell?
c) What is the bottleneck station?