A product has to be designed and manufactured and the sequence of operations to be carried out to manufacture the product is detailed below: i. Cut the sheet metal to required shapes and sizes using a shearing process. ii. The components are then subjected to pressing operations to alter the shape of the flat sheet as predesign. iii. Welding is done to join the components iv. Painting v. Components are packed and kept ready for dispatch. The time take for each operation is 20, 30, 15, 12 and 6 minutes respectively. a. If the shop works on an 8 hour shift with an effective time of 450 minutes. What is the production capacity of the shop ? b. Where is the bottleneck in the system ? c. If management permits to add one more machine, which machine would you add ? d. If the customer demand is increased to 25 units/day, identify the additional capacity required. e. Compare the utilization of the machines as per the revised capacity calculation.A product has to be designed and manufactured and the sequence of
operations to be carried out to manufacture the product is detailed below: