A flexible manufacturing cell consists of two machining workstations plus a load/ unload station. The load/unload station is station 1 with one server (human worker). Station 2 consists of one CNC machining center. Station 3 has one CNC drill press. The three stations are connected by a part-handling system that has one work carrier. The mean transport time is 2.0 min. The FMC produces three parts, A, B, and C. The part-mix fractions and process routings for the three parts are presented in the table below. The operation frequency is fijk = 1.0 for all operations. Determine (a) maximum production rate of the FMC, (b) corresponding production rates of each product, (c) utilization of each machine in the system, and (d) number of busy servers at each station. A spreadsheet calculator is recommended for this problem.
A flexible manufacturing cell consists of two machining workstations plus a load/
unload station. The load/unload station is station 1 with one server (human worker).
Station 2 consists of one CNC machining center. Station 3 has one CNC drill press. The
three stations are connected by a part-handling system that has one work carrier. The
mean transport time is 2.0 min. The FMC produces three parts, A, B, and C. The part-mix
fractions and process routings for the three parts are presented in the table below. The
operation frequency is fijk = 1.0 for all operations. Determine (a) maximum production
rate of the FMC, (b) corresponding production rates of each product, (c) utilization of
each machine in the system, and (d) number of busy servers at each station. A spreadsheet
calculator is recommended for this problem.
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