An electronics manufacturing company produces circuit boards…
An electronics manufacturing company produces circuit boards using the four-step sequential process shown below. There is a single employee at each step. Step Processing Time per Circuit Board Component install 2 minutes Solder 2.5 minutes Inspection 1.5 minutes Test 3 minutes Assume demand is unlimited. To which step should an additional employee be assigned to increase process capacity? Hint: this question basically asks who is the bottle neck in a different way. By definition, bottle neck is the resource with lowest capacity. Who has the lowest capacity? – the one with longest processing time. This question actually does not require calculations.
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