Process Step Number of Machines Seconds per Bottle Bottling 1 1 Apply a lid 1 3 Labeling 1 3 Packaging 1 4
. A small, privately owned Asian company is producing a private-label soft drink called
Yoggo. A bottling line puts the soft drinks into plastic bottles and then packages
the bottles into boxes holding 10 bottles each. The bottling line is comprised of the
following four steps: (1) the bottling machine takes 1 second to fill a bottle, (2) the lid
machine takes 3 seconds to cover the bottle with a lid, (3) a labeling machine takes
3 seconds per bottle, and (4) the packaging machine takes 4 seconds to place a bottle
into a box. When a box has been filled with 10 bottles, a worker tending the packaging
machine removes the filled box and replaces it with an empty box. Assume that the
time for the worker to remove a filled box and replace it with an empty box is negligible
and hence does not affect the capacity of the line. Problem data are summarized in the
following table. a. Draw a process flow diagram of this process.
b. What is the capacity (bottles/hour) at the resource “Apply a lid”?
c. What is the bottleneck in the process?
d. Assuming unlimited demand, what would be the flow rate?
e. Assuming unlimited demand, what would be the utilization at resource “Apply a lid”?
f. Assume the process started empty and that this is a machine-paced process. How long
would it take to produce 500 bottles?
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