The? three-station work cell illustrated in the figure below has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1? (they are? parallel) before proceeding to station 2.
Figure:
Station 1 Machine A: capacity 30 units/hr
Station 1 Machine B: capacity 30 units/hr
Station 2: capacity 3 units/hr
Station 3: capacity 15 units/hr
a) The bottleneck time of the system is _______ minutes per unit ?(enter your response as a whole? number).
b) What is the process time of the system?
c) What is the process cycle time?
d) If the firm operates 10 hours per day, 5 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell?