BUS 644 week 4 Monique Food Processing Industry

Monique Food Processing Company produces light snacks that can be heated in a microwave. The following steps are included in the process:

Steps

Description

Capacity (Units/Hour)

1

Prepare food

200

2

Measure and place in plastic pouch

175

3

Prepare cardboard box

200

4

Insert pouch into box

300

5

Shrink-wrap box

200

is the system capacity, and which is the bottleneck department? much slack (unused capacity) is available in other departments? much system capacity can be gained by adding capacity to the bottleneck? are the key factors that determine when to add capacity? would an organization want to reduce its capacity?

Make and include calculations. Answer questions a - e. Your initial post should be 200-250...