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Consider a furniture manufacturing facility where the operating system is setup as a flow line. Part are made using four processes: Process A, then Process B, then Process C, then Process D. The production times (minutes per part) for Processes A, B, C, and D are 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 1.0, respectively. Currently, there are 450 parts waiting to be produced and there is no other inventory in the system

a. Find Calculate the flow time. Based on this information

b. If Process C were improved so that the production time was reduced to 2 minutes per part, what would be the flow time? Show all work

c. If both Processes B & C were improved so that the production time was 1.5 minutes per part (Machine B) and 2 minutes per part (Machine C) what would be the flow time?

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