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HELLO SIR,
PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE EXAMPLE COVERED IN TOPIC 5 i. e BOTTLENECK RESOURCE FROM THE NOTES PROVIDED BY OPEN TUITIONS
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You will have to say what your problem is – I assume that you have looked at the printed answer?
No sir. only question is given without solution . the question is
yam co. is involved in the processing of sheet metal into products a,b and c using three processes, pressing, stretching and rolling.
the factory has 50 production lines each of which contains the three processes: raw material for the sheet metal is first pressed then stretched and rolled. The processing capacity varies for each process and the factory manager has provided the following data:
Processing time per metre in hours
product A product B productC
pressing 0.50 0.50 0.40
stretching 0.25 0.40 0.25
rolling 0.40 0.25 0.25
The factory operates for 2225000 hours
identify the bottleneck process and explain why this process is described as bottleneck.
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