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Analyzing System Capacity and Bottlenecks in Monique Food Processing Company

The paper examines the capacity and bottlenecks in Monique Food Processing Company's production system, offering solutions to improve efficiency.

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Analyzing System Capacity and Bottlenecks in Monique Food ProcessingCompanyMonique Food Processing Company and CapacityRead Problem 6: The “Monique Food Processing Company” in Chapter 8 of your text.Monique Food Processing Company produces light snacks that can be heated in a microwave.The following steps are included in the process:StepsDescriptionCapacity (Units/Hour)1Prepare food2002Measure and place in plastic pouch1753Prepare cardboard box2004Insert pouch intobox3005Shrink-wrap box200•What is the system capacity, and which is the bottleneck department?•How much slack (unused capacity) is available in other departments?•How much system capacity can be gained by adding capacity to the bottleneck?•What are the key factors that determine when to add capacity?•Why would an organization want to reduce its capacity?Make and include calculations.Answer questions a-e. Your initial post should be 200-250words.System capacity is the ability of the organization to produce a sufficient number of goods andservices. The capacity of the product-oriented and process-oriented layouts is determined byanalyzing the capacity of individual departments. (Vonderembse & White, 2013, ch 7.3). Sincethe systems are dependent on each other, the end product of one system becomes the beginningof another. The problem is that if one system is too small and disrupts the flow, it restrictsproduct flow. As (Vonderembse. & White, 2013)point out “this restriction is called a bottleneck,and it determines the system's capacity”(ch 7.3). In our example, step 2 will cannot handle theoutput of step 1, the system capacity, and is the bottle neck department.`How much slack (unused capacity) is available in other departments?Department 1 can deliver 200 units per hour (uph) to department 2, which can only use 175uph, so department 1 cannot be the bottleneck. Departments 2 and 3 combine their inputs to 4 ina ratio of two to one. If dept. 2 has only has 175 to offer, then only 125 uph of 3 can be used. Sofar, department 2 restricts the capacity. To department 4 will flow 300 (175 from dept. 2 plus125 from dept. 3). Department 4 has sufficient capacity to process. Dept 5 can only process 200

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