Question

A manufacturing company has a small production line dedicated to the production of a particular product. The line has four stations in serial. Inputs arrive at station 1 and the output from station 1 becomes the input to station 2. The output from station 2 is the input to station 3 and so on. The output from station 4 is the finished product. Station 1 can process 2,700 units per month, station 2 can process 2,200/month, station 3 can process 2,000/month, and station 4 can process 2,100/month a. What station sets the maximum possible output from this system? Station 3 Station 2 Station 1 Station 4 b. What is that maximum output number? Maximum output units per month

Answer 1

Question: A manufacturing company has a small production line dedicated to the production of a particular product. The line has four stations in serial. Inputs arrive at station 1 and the output from station 1 becomes the input to station 2. The output from station 2 is the input to station 3 and so on. The output from station 4 is the finished product. Station 1 can process 2,700 units per month, station 2 can process 2,200/month, station 3 can process 2,000/month, and station 4 2,100/month.

a. What station sets the maximum possible output from this system?

Answer: Station 3

Explanation:

Given that:

Station 1 = 2700 units per month

Station 2 = 2200 units per month

Station 3 = 2000 units per month

Station 4 = 2100 units per month

Now, the slowest process creates the bottleneck here Station 3 is a slowest process of them all.

Therefore:

The maximum possible output from this system = Station 3

b. What is that maximum output number?

Answer: 2000 units per month

Explanation:

The Station 3 is slowest of them all which attains maximum possible output from this system hence the maximum output number of Station 3 is = 2000 units per month.