Consider the Following Production Process

question 49

Essay

Consider the following production process.It is trying to meet a market demand of 250 units per week. Step 1: Material release schedule
Step 2: Drilling (capacity is 300 units/week)
Step 3: Tapping (capacity is 150 units/week)
Step 4: Grinding (capacity is 300 units/week)
Step 5: Coating (capacity is 200 units/week)
Step 6: Inspection (capacity is 500 units/week)
a.Where should buffers be placed?
b.Which resource is the drum?
c.Where should the rope be placed?
d.Which resource is the bottleneck?
e.Which resource is the CCR?

---

Definitions:

Underlying Continuum

An uninterrupted sequence or range in which items change gradually from one condition, form, or level to another, and are not perceived as discrete steps.

Nominal Level

The most basic level of measurement that categorizes data without implying any quantitative order or degree of difference between the categories.

Median

The middle value in a data set, separating the higher half from the lower half, providing a measure of central tendency that is not influenced by extreme values.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, such as the mean, median, or mode.