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1 . It will take 21 minutes to fill 1 rush order (6+2+10+5+2+1= 26 minutes). Gantt chart is usually attached. installment payments on your The pattern time is definitely 10 minutes for the reason that bottleneck is the time they need to wait for the cookies to bake in the range. They cannot continue the cookie process with out baking and the lack of room in the the oven or added ovens would be the constraints that are limiting the overall operation.
The capability of the procedure would be 6th orders per hour (60 minutes/ 10 minutes= six orders), so that means you could fill up 24 requests in one nighttime (6 requests an hour * 4 hours). This answer does imagine every buy only requests one number of each, for instance , if a single customer instructions two dozen, you would be able to fill up 23 instructions because that order might require using the oven twice. 3. How much labor every dozen for 1 purchase is eight minutes every dozen (mixing and scooping takes almost 8 minutes) intended for Kristen and 4 minutes for Kristen’s roommate per dozen (the real operate she does, the time the girl spends ready is minimal so the one particular minute to launch, 2 moments to package deal and you minute to take the payment).
Kristen’s bunkmate only does slightly less work per dozen if they are all similar because she’ll only agree to the repayment once, therefore for two dozen she would do 3. 5 minutes, and three dozen she’d do three or more. 33 mins per dozen. Kristen does the same amount of job per number of when they are many different. When the cookies have similar ingredients, Kristen does fewer work mainly because she doesn’t have to continue mixing for every single dozen.
If it’s two similar dozens of cookies, Kristen does 5 minutes of work per dozen (6 minutes of blending, 2 a few minutes of scooping * two times/2). When it’s three similar a large number of cookies, Kristen does some minutes of work per dozens of (6 a few minutes of mixing, a couple of minutes of scooping * 3 times/3). If it’s two similar dozen and one different, she will carry out 6 moments of work every dozen (6 minutes of mixing* 2 times, 2 a few minutes of scooping * a few times/3). Kristen still truly does 3. 5 and three or more.
33 mins of work per dozen since her method doesn’t modify based on the range of cookies. 5. I personally wouldn’t because the procedure is gradual enough and it would incentivize customers to buy even more which isn’t necessarily an excellent for the reputation of Kristen’s cookies with regards to its speed of services. People will probably order several dozens of cookies and as all of us saw, this didn’t improve Kristen’s procedures which in conditions of labor is the most on time.
I think this may get more money in the growing process, but in the long term people wouldn’t be as well happy with Kristen’s speed in the event everyone purchased three lots of cookies each time (some orders wouldn’t become received inside hours. ) 5. Without the more the oven space, ordering more electric mixers probably would not be as well beneficial as the bottleneck may be the oven. At this time, Kristen is definitely continually waiting on oven space to be available which can be what is delaying operations straight down, so I might stay with one since it could just improve your fixed costs.
As for the trays, I would personally have 4, because you might have one dish in the the oven and still manage to scoop out the contents from the processor for 3 dozen cookies which could maximize Kristen’s efficiency and she wouldn’t be waiting around. 6. The oven is definitely the bottle the neck and throat because it takes the most some the businesses cannot continue without baked cookies. Kristen cannot help to make more cookies without space in the range, and her roommate are not able to continue to finish the buy without the cooked cookies possibly.
Adding one more oven (assuming it simply took 1 dozen still), would improve the capacity to 12 orders an hour because the container neck would become cleansing and mixing up the ingredients which would be 1 minute even more per dozens of in the process. The modern constraint intended for baking would be 5 minutes since there are two ovens now that this decreases the respective circuit time for cooking by half. The maximum sum I would pay for an additional range would be the increased revenue this generates a month for Kristen’s cookies, since past that the oven wouldn’t be viewing a return within the investment.
