Question

as such, for example, in one hour, extrusion can produce either 40 hula-hoops (i.e., one every 3 minutes, so 20 per hour, for each of the two processors), 30 units strawshooters, or 60 wingdingers. if demand for hula-hoops (h) is 0 units per day, for strawshooters (s) it is 100 units per day and for wingdingers (w) it is 200 per day, then which resource is the bottleneck?

Answer 1

To determine which resource is the bottleneck, we need to calculate how much of each product can be produced in a day using the given hourly production rates:

Hula-hoops: 20 per hour, so 20 x 8 = 160 per day

Strawshooters: 30 per hour, so 30 x 8 = 240 per day

Wingdingers: 60 per hour, so 60 x 8 = 480 per day

Now we compare the daily demand for each product to the daily production capacity:

Hula-hoops: demand is 0 units, production capacity is 160 units

Strawshooters: demand is 100 units, production capacity is 240 units

Wingdingers: demand is 200 units, production capacity is 480 units

Since the production capacity for wingdingers is greater than the demand, it is not the bottleneck. However, the production capacity for strawshooters and hula-hoops is less than the demand for those products, so one of these two products is the bottleneck.

Comparing the production capacities of hula-hoops and strawshooters, we see that strawshooters have a higher production capacity. Therefore, the bottleneck resource is the production capacity of hula-hoops.