Question

Ram runs a small eatery where he sells a single variety of Indian bread (known as Roti). People can order over phone and come and collect the bread. Orders are taken for a standard pack of 5 rotis. The entire process is done in batch of 5 rotis only. Roti making and delivery has five steps and the details of times per batch of Roti is as follows. Preparing the dough (3 minutes), Rolling (5 minutes), Heating (4 minutes), Packing (2 minutes), Billing & Cash (1 minute). Assume there is a single unit of the required resource available at each stage of the process.

Given this information, answer the following:.

(a)What is the throughput time for the process?

(b)What is the maximum hourly production of Rotis possible?

(c)Which stage of the process is the bottleneck in the process?

(d)If Ram keeps his shop open for 4 hours and keeps making Rotis (standard single variety) since he feels he will sell all of them in any case, how many Roti’s can he hope to make?





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Answer 1

Answer:

a) time is 15 min

b) 60/15*5 = 20 rotis

c) Rolling takes the max time ( what is bottleneck?)

d) 20 *4 =80 rotis

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