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This document contains solutions to tutorial problems about Little's Law, flow times, process capacities, and bottlenecks. Problem 1 uses Little's Law to calculate flow times given inventory levels and flow rates. Problem 2 identifies a process bottleneck. Problem 3 optimizes batch sizes. Problem 4 analyzes worker capacities. Problem 5 compares FCFS and SPT queueing disciplines. Problem 6 calculates process capacity with downtime. Problem 7 determines optimal batch size.

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Tutorial 2 Solutions

This document contains solutions to tutorial problems about Little's Law, flow times, process capacities, and bottlenecks. Problem 1 uses Little's Law to calculate flow times given inventory levels and flow rates. Problem 2 identifies a process bottleneck. Problem 3 optimizes batch sizes. Problem 4 analyzes worker capacities. Problem 5 compares FCFS and SPT queueing disciplines. Problem 6 calculates process capacity with downtime. Problem 7 determines optimal batch size.

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Tutorial 2 solutions

2. Littles law: inventory = FR*FT


a. Flow rat is 255, inventory is 35
FT = Inv./FR =35/255, so flow time = 0.13725 hour on average (or 8.235
minutes)
b. If FR is 1500 customers per day & Inventory is 25 customers
FT = Inv./FR = 25/1500 = 0.016667 day (24 minutes if store opens 24 hours a
day)
c. Average time fish is kept is the flow time
FT = Inv./Flow rate = 2500/5000 = 1/2 week = 3.5 days. Please advise the
restaurant to cut down its inventory so that flow time is 3 days or less, i.e.
set 3*5000/7=2143 fishes
d. If Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) is 20,000 m. $/year & Inventory is 400 m. $
FT = Inv./FR = 400/20,000 = 0.02 year (or 7.3days if operating 365 days a year)
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3.
a. Process capacity = 1/12*60= 5 units per hour
b. Assume there is no buffer, FT = 12+12+8 = 32 minutes
If buffer exists, FT can be longer than 32 minutes
c. The cycle time should be the activity time of the
bottleneck activity = 12 minutes
d. Flow rate = 1/Cycle time=1/12*60=5 units per hour
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3

ACTIVITY TIME: ACTIVITY TIME: ACTIVITY TIME:


10 12 8
MINUTE/PART MINUTE/PART MINUTE/PART

NO SETUP NO SETUP NO SETUP


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4.
a.
worker task Processing time (seconds) Capacity (units per hour)
1 1 30 120
2 2 25 144
3 3&4 75 48
4 5&6 45 80
b.
worker task Processing time (seconds) Capacity (units per hour)
1 1&2 55 65.45
2 3 35 102.86
3 4 40 90
4 5&6 45 80

worker task Processing time (seconds) Capacity (units per hour)


1 1&2 55 65.45
2 3 35 102.86
3 4&5 55 65.45
4 6 30 120
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5. Note that the flow time
should include job FCFS
Job Processing Time Flow Time
waiting time in addition A 30 30
B 25
to job processing time C 15
55
70
SPT is recommended D 20 90
Total 90 245
average flow time 61.25
Average inventory 2.722222222
SPT
Job Processing Time Flow Time
C 15 15
D 20 35
B 25 60
A 30 90
Total 90 200
average flow time 50
Average inventory 2.222222222
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40 b

Extraction Filtering Bottling


80 barrels/h 100 barrels/h 120 barrels/h

6. In above lemonade production process, the filtering step requires a 30


minutes down-time (for clean-up) following every 4 hours of production.
A. Whats the process capacity? (80*4)/4.5 = 71.11 b/h
B. To improve the current process capacity, we can add a buffer,
Where should the buffer be? After extraction step
How big (# barrels) should the buffer be? 40 barrels
Whats the improved process capacity with this added buffer? 80 b/h
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7.
a. If the batch size is 50 parts, then
Resource capacity at Step 1: = 50/(30+1.5*50) = 0.476 parts/minute
Resource capacity at Step 2: =1/2 = 0.5 parts/minute
Resource capacity at Step 3: =1/2.5 = 0.4 parts/minute (bottleneck)
b. What batch size maximizes the capacity of the whole process with
minimize the inventory?
Set 0.4 = Q/(30+1.5Q) Q=30 parts

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