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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
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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Bottleneck

A process that is slowest or the one that causes maximum congestion in the system is known to be a "Bottleneck Process". 

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