Bryan Inc. produces a specialty top-quality juice machine. The product, the JM50, requires four processes...

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Bryan Inc. produces a specialty top-quality juice machine. The product, the JM50, requires four processes to be completed. Specifically, these processes are exterior construction, pulp filter insertion, painting, and packaging. Each function is performed at separate workstations with different completion ratios:

Exterior construction can manufacture 120,000 juicer exteriors per day.

Pulp filter insertion can install 32,000 filters every 6 hours.

Painting can decorate 1,800 juicers every 20 minutes.

Packaging can package 4,600 juicers per hour.

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a) Determine the maximum amount of JM 50 machines Bryan Inc. can sell per month (assume an average of 30 days per month and 24 hours per day)?

b) What function is the bottleneck?

c) whats the least amount of monthly capacity you would have to add to the bottle necks to shift the bottleneck to a new function

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