Consider a process consisting of five resources that are operated eight hours pe

Question

Consider a process consisting of five resources that are operated eight hours per day. The process works on three different products, A, B, and C:

Demand for the three different products is as follows: product A, 43 units per day; Product B, 50 units per day; and product C, 60 units per day.

What is the highest implied utilization among all resources (in percentage) ?

Resource Number of workers Processing time for A(minutes) Processing time for B(minutes) Processing times for C(minutes) 1 2 5 5 5 2 2 4 4 5 3 1 13 0 0 4 1 0 3 3 5 2 6 6 4

Explanation / Answer

The highest implied utilization is of resource 3 as it has 100% utilization (116.46% utilization is not possible in present situation therefore it is bottleneck with available time of 480 minutes against the required time of 559 minutes)

Resource Number of workers Working hours per day Total Available time (minutes) = No. of workers * working hours * 60 1 2 8 960 2 2 8 960 3 1 8 480 4 1 8 480 5 2 8 960

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse C
• Subjects

---

---

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.