2-3. Mr. Kake would like to improve the process. He find out the following optio

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2-3. Mr. Kake would like to improve the process. He find out the following options: a. Hiring another person in filling b. Hiring another person in making dough c. Buying another oven from the flea market:this one comes with a cycle time of 50 minutes and costs Mr. Kake $50 d. Buying another oven from the flea market: this one come with a cycle time of 40 minutes and costs Mr. Kake $100. Please help Mr.Kake choose one of the above options, and draw a new flowchart of the options you choose and use data to support this decision (you also have next page to write down the detailed solution).

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Flow chart of process

                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                   Bottleneck

                                                                                                                       

bottle neck is baking process

Cycle time = Average time between completion of units & equals time it takes to process a unit at the bottleneck = 30 min

Throughput time = Time it takes a single unit to go through the process from start to finish

= 15 + 19 +30 + 10 +7 = 81 Minutes

Throughput rate = 1/ Cycle time = 1 / 30

Utilization =   Throughput Rate /Process Capacity

Dough making = 15/30 = .5 or 50%

Filling = 19 / 30 =.6333 or 63.33 %

Baking = 30/30 = 1 or 100%

Frosting = 10/30 = .3333 or 33.33%

Packing/selling = 7 /30 = .2333 or 23.33%

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