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- May 15, 2017 at 8:18 pm #386344
Good evening,
I am busy practicing the F5 past paper dated September 2016. I think I am just being completely blind here but for the life of me cannot figure it out.Question 11 (MCQ) states:
A manufacturing company uses three processes to make its two products, X and Y. The time available on the three processes is reduced because of the need for preventative maintenance and rest breaks.
Process Hours available per day Hrs. Required X Hrs. Required Y
1 22 1 0.75
2 22 0.75 1
3 18 1 0.5Daily demand for X and Y is 10 and 16 respectively.
The correct answer is that Process 2 is the bottleneck but I don’t see how.
Process 3 only produces 9 product Y’s per day, so should process 3 not be the bottleneck?Please help me wrap my brain around this- Thank you so much!!
May 15, 2017 at 8:59 pm #386352Hi Mr. Moffat,
Sorry I figured it out. I was not thinking clearly. Maybe just typing this question out helped me to wake up.
I was calculating it completely wrong, but have now solved it. Thank you very much
May 16, 2017 at 12:48 pm #386449No need to thank me (because I didn’t do anything 🙂 )
I am pleased that you have sorted it out.
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