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Analyzing System Capacity and Bottlenecks in Monique Food Processing Company

The paper examines the capacity and bottlenecks in Monique Food Processing Company's production system, offering solutions to improve efficiency.

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    Analyzing System Capacity and Bottlenecks in Monique Food Processing Company Monique Food Processing Company and Capacity Read Problem 6: The “Monique Food Processing Company” in Chapter 8 of your text. Monique Food Processing Company produces light snacks that can be heated in a microwave. The following steps are included in the process: Steps Description Capacity (Units/Hour) 1 Prepare food 200 2 Measure and place in plastic pouch 175 3 Prepare cardboard box 200 4 Insert pouch into box 300 5 Shrink - wrap box 200 • What is the system capacity, and which is the bottleneck department? • How much slack (unused capacity) is available in other departments? • How much system capacity can be gained by adding capacity to the bottlene ck? • What are the key factors that determine when to add capacity? • Why would an organization want to reduce its capacity? Make and include calculations. Answer questions a - e. Your initial post should be 200 - 250 words. System capacity is the a bility of the organization to produce a sufficient number of goods and services. The capacity of the product - oriented and process - oriented layouts is determined by analyzing the capacity of individual departments. ( Vonderembse & White, 2013, ch 7.3). Since the systems are dependent on each other, the end product of one system becomes the beginning of another. The problem is that if one system is too small and disrupts the flow, it restricts product flow. As (Vonderembse. & White, 2013) point out “this restriction is called a bottleneck, and it determines the system's capacity” (ch 7.3). In our example, step 2 will cannot handle the output of step 1, the system capacity, and is the bottle neck department. `How much slack (unused capacity) is available in other departments? Department 1 can deliver 200 units per hour (uph) to department 2, which can only use 175 uph, so department 1 cannot be the bottleneck. Departments 2 and 3 combine their inputs to 4 in a ratio of two to one. If dept. 2 has only has 175 to offer, then only 125 uph of 3 can be used. So far, department 2 restricts the capacity. To department 4 will flow 300 (175 from dept. 2 plus 125 from dept. 3). Department 4 has sufficient capacity to process. Dept 5 can only process 200

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