Beck Manufacturing Al Beck president of Beck manufacturing wants to determine

Beck Manufacturing

Al Beck president of Beck manufacturing wants to determine the
capacity of his facility which produces steering gears for auto
manufacturers. He has asked you to sort
through the data and determine the capacity of the system
and how that capacity may be increased. The operation is a product layout
that produces large numbers of nearly identical products. The process includes milling grinding boring drilling and assembling in that
order. Each finished product requires one operation on each type
of machine. For example each finished part is processed on
one of the five milling machines one of the seven
grinding machines etc.

The facility runs two 8-hour shifts per
day with a third shift for maintenance. The industrial engineering department has provided you with the
following data on present operations. In addition you have been
told that assembly operations while not unlimited can be easily
changed to meet the need.