A three-station line with six operators, where a part needs an operator at stations 1, 2 and 3 for and average of 10, 15 and 5 minutes, respectively. There are plenty of machines at each station, so many that we are confident none of them could be the bottleneck resource, so we don’t need to calculate any of their processing rates.

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Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models
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A three-station line with six operators, where a part needs an operator at stations 1, 2 and 3 for and average of 10, 15 and 5 minutes, respectively. There are plenty of machines at each station, so many that we are confident none of them could be the bottleneck resource, so we don’t need to calculate any of their processing rates.

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