Machine Upgrades and Line Throughput
A short furniture manufacturing decision problem. Use the supplied facts, commit to one action, then check your reasoning. Fictional practice; no leaderboard score is recorded.
Furniture manufacturing · investing off the constraint
Your line has three stations. Cutting takes 40 seconds per unit, assembly takes 95 seconds, and finishing takes 55 seconds. A vendor offers a machine that would cut the cutting station to 20 seconds.
| Given fact | Scenario data |
|---|---|
| Cutting | 40 seconds / unit |
| Assembly | 95 seconds / unit |
| Finishing | 55 seconds / unit |
| Proposed upgraded cutting | 20 seconds / unit |