Question

A production line at V. J.​ Sugumaran's machine shop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in 8 minutes. The second station has two identical​ machines, each of which can process a unit in 12 minutes​ (each unit only needs to be processed on one of the two ​machines). The third station can process a unit in 5 minutes.

Station 3 Station 2 Station 1 is the bottleneck​ station, with a bottleneck time of nothing minutes per unit ​(enter your response as a whole​ number).
Which station is the bottleneck station?

Answer 1

Station 1 = 8 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the bottleneck time minutes per unit is shown below:

Station 1 = 8 minutes

Station 2 = 12 minutes ÷ 2 machines = 6 minutes

Station 3 = 5 minutes

The station who has higher minutes per unit is considered to be the bottleneck station as it reduced the overall capacity.

So, station 1 is the bottleneck station with 8 minutes per unit