A product is manufactured by assembly of the two components X and Y The components and Yare manufactured by two separate workers working in parallel. The final assembly of the 2 is done by a third worker when one unit of X and one Y are both available. It takes 20 sec to manufacture a single unit of X, 30 sec to manufacture a single unit of Y, and 45 sec to assemble a single unit of from X and Y. There is no space to keep inventory in between X and Z, as well as in between Y and Z
a. Draw this system and show the performance of each process step.
a. Estimate the flowtime (throughput time) in seconds for this manufacturing process at Steady-state
b. Estimate the production capacity of this manufacturing process for an eight-hour shift with non-stop operations at steady state.
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