Process Step Activity Time (Minutes per Batch) Mixing 15 Forming 10 Baking 12 Cooling 18 Packing 10
Consider the following production process for manufacturing biscuits. The first step of
the process is mixing, where all of the ingredients are combined in the correct proportion to form dough. In the next step of the process, the dough is formed into sheets and
cut into pieces in preparation for baking. The cut dough is then baked into biscuits and
subsequently must be cooled. The final step of the process is packaging the biscuits for
the consumer.
The following table summarizes the production process along with the processing times
at each step of the process. The process is highly automated, so assume that this is a
machine-paced process with one machine available at each step.a. What is the capacity of the baking process step (in batches per hour)?
b. What is the bottleneck of the manufacturing process?
c. Assuming unlimited demand, what is the process flow rate (in batches per hour)?
d. Assuming unlimited demand, what is the utilization of the mixing process step?
e. If the manufacturing process is currently full of work-in-process inventory, how long
would it take to complete 50 batches of biscuits?
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