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Bryan IncProduces a Specialty Top-Quality Juice Machine

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Bryan Inc.produces a specialty top-quality juice machine.The product,the JM50,requires four processes to be completed.Specifically,these processes are exterior construction,pulp filter insertion,painting,and packaging.Each process is performed at separate workstations with different completion rates:
Exterior construction can manufacture 100,000 juicer exteriors per day.
Pulp filter insertion can install 25,000 filters every 6 hours.
Painting can decorate 3,000 juicers every half hour.
Packaging can package 5,000 juicers per hour.
The plant operates 24/7,24 hours a day every day of the week.
What is the least amount of monthly capacity you would have to add to the bottleneck(s) to shift the bottleneck to a different process?


A) 2,000,001 juicers per month.
B) 600,001 juicers per month.
C) 1,320,001 juicers per month.
D) 50,001 juicers per month.
Exterior: 100,000 x 30 = 3m
Pulp filter: 25,000 x 24/6 x 30 = 3m
Painting: 48 x 3,000 x 30 = 4,320,000
Packaging: 24 x 5,000 x 30 = 3.6m
Add 600,001 to Exterior and to Pulp Filter,would move the constraint to Packaging

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