Consider the following production process. It is trying to meet a market demand of 500 units per week
Step 1: Material release schedule
Step 2: Drilling (capacity is 500 units/week)
Step 3: Tapping (capacity is 450 units/week)
Step 4: Grinding (capacity is 600 units/week)
Step 5: Coating (capacity is 400 units/week)
Step 6: Inspection (capacity is 1000 units/week)
a. Where should buffers be placed?
b. Which resource is the drum?
c. Where should the rope be placed?
d. Which resource is the bottleneck?
e. Which resource is the CCR?
a. A constraint buffer should be placed between steps 4 and 5 to protect the bottleneck which is Step 5 (Coating). A shipping buffer should be placed at the end of the line, after Step 6, (Inspection).
b. The resource functioning as the drum is the bottleneck, Step 5.
c. The rope should connect Step 1 and Step 5.
d. The bottleneck is Step 5.
e. A CCR exists if the process with the least capacity can still meet market demand, which is not the case in this scenario.
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