The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is illustrated in the figure below. It has two machines at station 1 in parallel (i.e., the product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2) 30 min/unit Station 1 Machine A Station 2 Station 3 Station 1 3 min/unit 2 min/unit Machine B 30 min/unit a) The throughput time is minutes (enter your response as a whole number).

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The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is illustrated in the figure below. It has two machines at station 1 in parallel (i.e., the product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2).
30 min/unit
Station 1
Machine A
Station 2
Station 3
Station 1
3 min/unit
2 min/unit
Machine B
30 min/unit
a) The throughput time is
minutes (enter your response as a whole number).
b) The bottleneck time of this work cell is minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).
c)
is the bottleneck station
d) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is units (enter your response as a whole number).
Transcribed Image Text:The three-station work cell at Pullman Mfg., Inc. is illustrated in the figure below. It has two machines at station 1 in parallel (i.e., the product needs to go through only one of the two machines before proceeding to station 2). 30 min/unit Station 1 Machine A Station 2 Station 3 Station 1 3 min/unit 2 min/unit Machine B 30 min/unit a) The throughput time is minutes (enter your response as a whole number). b) The bottleneck time of this work cell is minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number). c) is the bottleneck station d) If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is units (enter your response as a whole number).
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