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Infusion US Infusion US is @ startup that offers powerful and energizing infusions in @ non-hospial setting for competine athletes (ust lectrolyles, no doping!!). The service process includes five activilies that are conducted in the sequence described below (The time ‘required for each activity is shown in parentheses), ‘tivity 1: Wolcome a pation and explain tho procedure (7 minutes) ‘Activity 2: Take vitals, insert IV. and take blood (13 minutes) Activity 9: Mx infusion treatment (12 minutes) Activity 4: Chemo infusion, (30 minutes) Activity 6: Dobrit the pationt (6 minutes) Three nurses (S1, $2, and $3) offer the services in a worker-paced Ine. The assignment of activities to nurses is the folowing, St does Actwty 1 and Actty 2 2 does Actvty 3 33 does Actes 4 and Actin 5 ‘Assume that there exists unlimited demand and that the process only admits patients at the rate of the bottleneck. ws ‘Which nurse 1s the botionock of the process? What is the process utitzation (12, the utiizaton of the boltioneck resource)? ‘What 1s the cycle me (in minutos)? ‘What 1s the sco tine per unit at nurse 1 (in minutes)? ‘What is the average labor utitzation across al three nurses? What are the costs of direct labor associated with serving one patient? “Assume a wage rate of $30 per hour for Nurses 1 and 2 and $60 per hour for Nurse 3 ‘Assume workers are pakd regardless of whether they ere busy OF fake (Pease give the answor in S/pationt ) Rubpolding Ruhpoldg isa vilage inthe German Alps. Given its enormous populanty among Swiss, German, Austrian, and tian skiers, al ofits beds are always booked the winter ‘season and there are1,200 beds in the vilage. On average, skiers stayin Ruhpoldng for 10 days, a, How many new skiers are arrhing—on average—n Runpoldng every day? A study done by the largest hotel inthe vlage has shown tha skies spend on average $50 per person on the first day and $30 per person on each additonal day in local festaurants. The study also forecasts thal—due to increased hotel prices—the average length of stay forthe 2010/2011 season wil be reduced to five days, What wil be the Impact on revenues of local restaurants compared to last year (when skiers sil stayed for 10 days)? Assume that hotels continue tobe fully booked! Express your answers in $s per day, Summer's Sweets Summer's Sweets i a smal chain of gelato stores in eastern North Carolina, In 2009, the company's revenue was $4,200,000 and its cost of sales was $2,600,000, Assume §2 weeks and 285 days per yea, $61, Summer keeps only 45 days-oF-suoply of inventory on average because much ofher inventory is gelato and fresh squeezed orange juice, both of which have a short shelf fe. What is his annual inventory turns? $S2. Given thathe has 4 5-days-of-supply of inventory on average, how much inventory does Summer have cn average (n $5)? Department of Motor Vehicles To obtain your first drivers license you must successfully complete several activities. First you must produce the appropriate identification. Then you must pass a written exam. Finally you must pass the road exam. At each of these steps 1%, 15%, and 30% of drivers license hopefuls fail to fulfil the step's requirements. You are only allowed to take the written exam if your identification is approved and you are only allowed to take the road testif you have passed the written exam. The average daily number of driver's license appicants is 400 people. Each step takes 5, 3, and 20 minutes respectively (staff members administering written exams need only setup the applicant at a computer), Currently the DMV staffs 4 people to process license applications, 2 to administer written exams, and 15 to judge the road exam. DMV staff work 8 hours per day. DMV1. How many license applications would the DMV process each day if it had unlimited capacity? DMV2. Which stage is the bottleneck according to the current staffing plan? DMV3. With the current staffing plan, how many newly licensed drivers will the DMV tun out each day?

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