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Transcribed Image Text:Infusion US® is a startup company that offers powerful and energizing electrolyte infusions in a non-hospital setting for competitive athletes. The service process includes five activities
that are conducted in the sequence described below, with their activity times in parenthesis. Activity #1 (welcome patient, explain the procedure) takes 07 minutes; activity #2 (take vitals,
insert IV, take blood sample) takes 13 minutes; activity #3 (mix infusion treatment) takes 12 minutes; activity #4 (chemo Infusion) takes 30 minutes and; activity #5 (debrief patient) takes
05 minutes. There are three nurses who carry out the said activities in the given sequence. The first nurse does activities #1 and #2, the second nurse does activity #3 and the third nurse
does activities #4 and #5. Which nurse is the bottleneck of the process?
Select one:
a. Nurse 2
b. Nurse 3
c. Nurse 1
d. None of them
Firms in the same industry will have the same inventory turns. Is this statement True or false?
Select one:
a. False
b. True

Transcribed Image Text:A plastic manufacturing company that makes four major products seeks to expand its operations in the coming year. At the beginning of the financial year, the company must decide on which of four new machines A, B, Cor D
to purchase to be able to meet total annual demand. Each machine operates 12 hours a day, 360 days a year. The following product forecasts and processing times have been projected:
Processing
Times per
Unit
(Minutes)
Product
Demand
units/yr
A
B
IC
Bowls
8,000
4
15
3
13
Carrier Bags
18,000
15
6
13
14
Cups
12,000
17
15
15
Pens
25,000
3
13
2
13
What is the available machine time in minutes?
Select one:
a. 219,000 minutes
b. 216,000 minutes
c. 262,800 minutes
d. 259,200 minutes
Operations management decision environments are classified according to the degree of certainty present. There are three basic categories namely:
Select one:
a. uncertainty, expected value and certainty
b. risk, uncertainty and expected value
c. expected value, risk and uncertainty
d. risk, certainty and uncertainty
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