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1. The capacity of the system is based on the output of the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the oven, which can process 60min/10min = 6 dozen orders per hour. This assumes one dozen order sizes. !. The throu"hput time is the sum of the processin" times for each of the steps. This e#uals $%10%&%!%1=!6 minutes. '. (n a four hour shift you can produce the hourly capacity for each hour. This means that you can produce )*6=!) dozen in the four hours. +owever, you have a startup time of $ minutes and a cleanup time of $ minutes that must be taken away from the four hours. Thus, you have 60min*)hours= !)0 minutes , 16 minutes = !!) minutes -'..' hours/ of available processin" time. This means that you can produce '..'*6 = !!.) dozen per hour. 0oundin" down is fine here. ). 1ou are workin" 6%! minutes for each dozen. 2ver the hour, you do this 6 times so you are workin" )$ minutes. 1our utilization would be )$/60=$03. 1our roommate is workin" 1%!%1 = ) minutes per dozen. 4o, )*6=!) minutes per hour. 1our roommate5s utilization would be !)/60=)03. &. 6ssumin" 6 dozen per hour you can "ross 6*&=7'0. The material e8pense is 6*-.1%.6/=7).!0. This leaves 7!&.$0 for you and your roommate. 6. 1ou can do this alone. This would mean that you would have to take over your roommates responsibilities of ) minutes per dozen. 1our new total time would be 1! minutes per order. +owever, this would mean that you are now the bottleneck of the operation. The new capacity based on your new time is 60/1! = & dozen cookies per hour.