Baskin-Robbins (BR) has a line that produces half-gallon ice cream packs. All the stations in
this line are single-machine and the line is nearly balanced. Suppose that BR hired you as the
production manager to evaluate the performance of the line. You have estimated the
bottleneck rate to be 2,160 packs per 18-hour day and the raw process time to be 27 minutes.
The actual production rate of this line is 1,800 packs per day with an average cycle time of 3
hours.
(a) Estimate the average WIP for this line:
WIP: ______________
(b) Compare the performance of this line to the minimum expected performance:
THMEP: ______________ CTMEP: