Q. Floor-On, Ltd. operates a line which makes self-adhesive tiles. This line consists of single machine stations also is almost balanced (i.e., station rates are nearly equal). A manufacturing engineer has estimated bottleneck rate of line to be 2000 cases per 16-hour day also raw process time to be 30 minutes. line has averaged 1700 cases per day, also cycle time has averaged 3.5hours.

a) Illustrate what would you estimate average WIP level to be?

b) Elucidate how does this performance compare to practical worst case?

c) Illustrate what would happen to throughput of line if we increased capacity at a non-bottleneck station also held WIP constant at its current level?