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  • September 8, 2021 at 3:38 pm #634916
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    A company manufactures product A using four machines. The time taken by each unit of product A in each of the machines is given. Maximum weekly demand for product a is 500 units
    Machine 1 2 3 4
    Machine capacity (hours) 100 80 40 30
    Hours 0.3 0.5 0.2 0.9
    Increasing the capacity of which machine will increase the throughput accounting ratio.

    If I calculate the capacity of each of the machines by multiplying the hours per unit by the demand then I get 150 250 100 450 which suggests that all of the resources are bottleneck

    Should I multiply the hours per unit by 500 or should I divide the capacity by the hours per unit

    September 8, 2021 at 4:12 pm #634937
    John Moffat
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    You should calculate the maximum that can be produced by each of the machines. Whichever machine gives the lowest is the bottleneck machine.

    September 8, 2021 at 5:02 pm #634944
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    Why would the capacity of each of the machines not be compared to the demand to determine which machine is the bottleneck.
    Also if I multiply the hours per unit for each of the machines by the demand and then the subtract the values from the capacity of each of the machines and then the machine which has the highest shortage of hours to meet demand is the bottleneck. Is this correct

    September 9, 2021 at 7:09 am #635031
    John Moffat
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    Yes – it will come to the same conclusion 🙂

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