Process Interruptions

1. A blood testing machine at a hospital requires 30 seconds to evaluate each sample, but after
testing 50 samples, the machine requires maintenance and recalibration, which requires 5
minutes. What is the set up time of this process?
2. A machine operates with the following production cycle: 15 minutes of setup, 45 minutes of
production. While in production the machine produces 2 parts per minute. What is the
capacity of the machine in parts per minute?
3. The setup time for a machine is 30 minutes and the processing time is 5 minutes. The parts
produced by this machine are used in an assembly process that has a capacity of 8 units per
hour.
a. If the batch size is 6, what is the capacity of the process (in units per hour)?
b. If the batch size is 30, what is the capacity of the process (in units per hour)?
4. Water samples are received to be tested at the rate of 2 per hour. Once set up to conduct
tests, the testing equipment can test 3 samples per hour. If the process is demand-
constrained, what is the utilization of the testing equipment?
5. A lathe requires a 20 minute setup and then requires 3 minutes to produce each unit. The
lathe produces in batches of 20 minutes. The other resource in the process, assembly, can
process one unit every 5 minutes. One unit is demanded every 4 units.
a. What is the flow rate of this process (in units per hour)?
b. What is the utilization of the lathe, expressed as number between 0 and 1?
6. A machine produces two parts. The switch over time between parts is 10 minutes. The
process is demand-constrained and the demand is received at the rate of 20 per hour. The
machine produces 180 units of a part before switching to the other part. The processing
time is 1 min per part. What is the average inventory of a part?
7. A machine does 3 setups per production cycle. Each set up requires 15 minutes. The
processing time is 0.75 minute. What batch size achieves a capacity of 40 units per hour?
8. 5 types of fabric are made on a machine. The machine requires a 2-hour setup time to
switch between types of fabric. Once in production, the machine makes 60 meters per hour
of fabric. Demands for the 5 types of fabric are 10, 10, 8, 8 and 4 meters per hour,
respectively. How many meters of fabric should they produce in each production cycle? How
many meters of fabric should they produce of the first type of fabric?