Operations Management Case Analysis

Assume Drying station capacity is 1,125 and scenario 1 drying time is 5 hours and scenario 2 is 7 hours. Also assume 3 shifts per day with 7 production hours each and 5 working days.

Answer the following:

1- Map the process flow of EB. (use an excel spreadhseet)

2- What is the daily and weekly production capacity of EB? (use an excel spreadhseet)

3-What are the utilization rates of EB's workstations? (use an excel spreadhseet)

4- What is the bottleneck in each scenario? (use an excel spreadhseet)

5- Can they fulfill an order of 10,000 units to be delivered in one week? How so? (use an excel spreadhseet)

6- If you add variation in processing times, what would happen to EB's production process? Would it improve of worsen? Why? Give an example.

7- Make recommendations to Ben so as to improve EB's process flow.