Practical Management Science
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Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.
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![**Klassen Toy Company, Inc.** assembles two parts (parts 1 and 2):
- **Part 1** is first processed at **workstation A** for 12 minutes per unit and then processed at **workstation B** for 30 minutes per unit.
- **Part 2** is simultaneously processed at **workstation C** for 20 minutes per unit.
Workstations B and C feed the parts to an assembler at **workstation D**, where the two parts are assembled. The time at workstation D is 10 minutes.
**a) The bottleneck of this process is [Dropdown Selection] at [Text Input] minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).**
The dropdown selection offers the following choices:
- workstation A
- workstation C
- workstation D
- workstation B](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F60ae2238-d375-4701-9aec-2226c586eada%2F5aa92a04-8f11-40e1-82fa-443d359ed514%2Fyq98f9a_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:**Klassen Toy Company, Inc.** assembles two parts (parts 1 and 2):
- **Part 1** is first processed at **workstation A** for 12 minutes per unit and then processed at **workstation B** for 30 minutes per unit.
- **Part 2** is simultaneously processed at **workstation C** for 20 minutes per unit.
Workstations B and C feed the parts to an assembler at **workstation D**, where the two parts are assembled. The time at workstation D is 10 minutes.
**a) The bottleneck of this process is [Dropdown Selection] at [Text Input] minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).**
The dropdown selection offers the following choices:
- workstation A
- workstation C
- workstation D
- workstation B
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