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kristens cookie company. Question 1 Rush order takes the least possible
time for preparing the dozen of cookies. The following is ...
Submitted by taneeya on April 20, 2008
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Kristen’s Cookie Company
We have studied Kristen’s Cookie Company’s planned production process, and have drawn a number of conclusions based on our analysis. The understanding of our analysis will be facilitated by the following flow chart, which shows each step along the production process. The coloration denotes work performed by each member of the two-person workforce, and capacity and timing are specified below for each step:
From the above chart, we see that when the process is continuing at maximum efficiency, filling one order of a dozen cookies will take 26 minutes.
The oven will be a source of bottlenecking since its portion of the process lasts ten minutes while the preceding and ensuing steps require a total of eight minutes each. Below is a Gantt chart which clarifies this bottlenecking phenomenon. For simplicity, we have combined the removing and cooling step with the packaging step:
If we choose to consider the pure capacity of this production process (neglecting startup and finishing time), we see that, once the production is underway, each batch will add another ten minutes to production time. However, we see that from the moment the first batch goes into the oven (eight minutes after beginning operations), if we use the oven at maximum capacity without pause, and allow for the eight minutes required for cooling, packaging, and completing the transaction after taking the last batch out, we can produce x dozen cookies in y minutes where y=8+10(x)+8 . If we assume that operations run for four hours every evening, then we see that we can produce 22 dozen cookies every night, and that four minutes will remain without productivity. Realistically, at least four minutes will be needed each evening to preheat the oven before operations and to clean the kitchen before closing, but for the purposes of this analysis, we have chosen to neglect this time and consider only the time...
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