We have a robot that makes an item making stops at two stations.
Station 1 has a processing time of 12 minutes and has four servers available.
Station 2 has a processing time of 5 minutes but only has two servers.
Please assume that jobs arrive with a constant arrival rate.
1. What is the raw processing time, bottleneck rate, and Critical WIP?
2. What would the maximum utilization be at each station? What has to occur in order to achieve maximum utilization?
3. Now say we need to rework the second station 15% of the time. What does that do to our bottleneck rate and max util at each station?
