Angels Inc. is considering bringing the garage fabricationprocess (which is currently outsourced) in-house. If garagefabrication were brought in-house, the factory would be structuredas follows. Roofs are punched in a roof punching press (10 minutesper roof) and then formed in a roof forming press (5 minutes perroof). Bases are punched in a base punching press (10 minutes perbase) and then formed in a base forming press (15 minutes perbase), and the formed base is welded in a base welding machine (5minutes per base).
The base sub-assembly and the roof then go to final assemblywhere they are welded together (10 minutes per garage) on anassembly welding machine to complete the garage. Assume oneoperator at each station.
(a)What is the minimum time required to produce a garage (fromstarting an order to finishing it)?
(b)What is the capacity of the factory in terms of garages perhour?
(c)If you want to increase the capacity, what is the stage thatyou would put some additional resources?
