Process Analysis

Process Analysis for Making a Shirt with an Additional Worker

• The process flow diagram for making a shirt consists of five steps: A, B, C, D, and E.
• A second worker has been hired to duplicate task D in the process.
• Shirts that have been through task C can now go to either of the two workers on task D.
• The product still requires all five steps (A, B, C, D, E) to be completed.
• The system cycle time is the time it takes for one unit to go through the entire process.
• At task D, two units can be processed in 12 minutes, resulting in an average cycle time of 6 minutes for the ironing task.
• The bottleneck process in the system is task B, which takes 10 minutes per unit.
• Therefore, the cycle time for the entire process is determined by the bottleneck process, which is 10 minutes per unit.
• The process operates for eight hours a day.
• The daily capacity of the process is the number of units it can produce in a day.
• At task D, two units can be processed in 12 minutes, resulting in an average cycle time of 6 minutes.
• The daily capacity of the process depends on the cycle time and the number of minutes the process operates in a day.