operation management

Go to the page entitled “Problems” at the end of chapter 6 in the textbook (e-book).

Read the problem number 6, about the furniture factory, and answer the following questions.

a. What is the capacity of the system and what is the bottleneck? 

b. What are the throughput times for batches of large and small tables.

c. When producing at a rate of six small tables per hour on average, how many tables will be in the system? 

d. Draw the flowchart.