Operations Management
17th Edition
ISBN: 9781259142208
Author: CACHON, Gérard, Terwiesch, Christian
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 4, Problem 11CQ
Which of the following actions does not relate to off-loading the bottleneck?
- a. Reassigning activities to other, nonbottleneck resources
- b. Automating some of the activities at the bottleneck
- c. Increasing wages for production workers
- d. Outsourcing some of the bottleneck activities
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Which of the following process type has the highest level of volume?
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c) The throughput time of the overall system is minutes (round your response to two decimal places).
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Chapter 4 Solutions
Operations Management
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