Consider a process consisting of three resources. Assume there exists unlimited

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Consider a process consisting of three resources. Assume there exists unlimited demand for the product. Resource 1 has a processing time of 2 minutes per unit. Resource 2 has a processing time of 6 minutes per unit. Resource 3 has a processing time of 4 minutes per unit. Resource 1 Resource 2 Resource 3 All three resources are staffed by one worker. The flow diagram is shown above. Round "Capacity of resource" to 3 decimal places and other numbers to whole numbers units per minute a. What is the capacity of resource 2? b. What is the bottleneck in the process? c. What is the utilization of resource 2? Resource percent How long does it take the process to produce 182 units starting with an empty system, assuming this is a worker-paced process? minutes

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a)Capacity = 1/processing time

Capacity of Resource 2 = 1/6 = .1667 units per minute

b) The bottleneck is defined as the process in the flow diagram with the lowest capacity (the “weakest link”).

Therefore, the process with the highest processing time is the bottleneck i.e RESOURCE 2

c) Utilisation = Flow Rate/Capacity

= 1/6*100

=16.667%

d) One unit takes LCM(2,6,4) minutes to process

One unit takes 12 minutes

182 units => 182*12

=2184 minutes

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