An electronics manufacturing company produces circuit boards…
An electronics manufacturing company produces circuit boards using the four-step sequential process shown below. There are three machines for component install, two machines for solder, one machine for inspection, and three machines for test. Step Processing Time per Circuit Board Component install 2 minutes Solder 2.5 minutes Inspection 1.5 minutes Test 4 minutes What is the utilization of the resource “component install” if demand is unlimited? Hint: this is the question revealed in class. So, you should have an answer now.
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A community health system’s nurse team consists of 12 nurses working in the local community. It takes a nurse 1.5 hours to complete one patient visit (including travel times and breaks). What is the capacity of the nurse team over the course of a 9-hour workday? Hint: the capacity = 1/processing time. What is the capacity of 1 nurse per hour? capacity per hour = 1 / processing time What is the capacity of 1 nurse per day? How many hours in a workday? capacity per day = capacity per hour * (how many hours per day). What is the capacity of 12 nurses? Capacity per day * 12 nurses.
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