Question

Job candidates are leaving an office every 50 minutes. Each candidate goes through three activities during the office visit: verification, written test, and interview. Verification takes 1 minute, the written test takes 40 minutes, and the interview takes 10 minutes. Assume there is only one resource dedicated to each activity. What is the bottleneck capacity in candidates per hour?

Answer 1

Answer:

80%

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the use of the bottleneck resource, the following formula is used:

Flow / Capacity

Now the flow rate is calculated by means of the cycle time, the flow rate is equal to the inverse of the cycle time (50 minutes), as shown below:

Flow rate = 1/50 = 0.02 client per minute.

Bottleneck capacity is the multiplication of the inverse of each activity, that is:

(1/1) * (1/40) * (1/10) = 0.025 client per minute.

Now replacing in the initial equation:

Flow / Capacity = 0.02 / 0.025 = 80%.