Question

operations management problem pizza is baked in the oven for 10.0 mins. your classmate then slices and boxes the pizza (1.2 mins) and collects the payment from the customer (1.4 mins). assuming that all the resources are available 7.25 hours a day, determine your daily capacity (number of pizzas per day).

Answer 1

The daily capacity of the pizza operation is 34 pizzas per day, based on the given information of baking, slicing, boxing, and payment collection times.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the daily capacity of the pizza operation, we need to calculate the amount of time required to produce, slice, box, and collect payment for each pizza. The total time per pizza is calculated as the sum of the baking time (10.0 minutes), slicing and boxing time (1.2 minutes), and collecting payment time (1.4 minutes). Therefore, the total time per pizza is 10.0 + 1.2 + 1.4 = 12.6 minutes.

Next, we need to calculate the total number of minutes available in a 7.25-hour day. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, there are 60 x 7.25 = 435 minutes in a 7.25-hour day.

To determine the daily capacity, we divide the total available minutes by the time per pizza: 435 minutes / 12.6 minutes = 34.52 pizzas. Since we can't produce a fraction of a pizza, the daily capacity is rounded down to 34 pizzas per day.