Question

A production line at V. J. Sugumaran's machine shop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in 6 minutes. The second station has two identical machines, each of which can process a unit in 16 minutes (each unit only needs to be processed on one of the two machines). The third station can process a unit in 9 minutes. is the bottleneck station, with a bottleneck time of minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).

Answer 1

The bottleneck station is the second station with a processing time of 16 minutes per unit, as each unit only goes through one machine, despite it having two identical machines.

Step-by-step explanation:

To identify the bottleneck station in V. J. Sugumaran's machine shop, we need to determine which station has the longest processing time per unit. Although the second station has two machines, each unit only goes through one, so we consider the time for one machine. The processing times for each station are as follows:

The second station is the bottleneck because it has the longest processing time of 16 minutes per unit, regardless of having two machines, as each unit is processed by only one machine.