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.
Which function(s)is/are the bottleneck(s)?

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The bottleneck(s) are the process(es) with the lowest completion rate(s). In this case, exterior construction can produce 100,000 juicers per day, pulp filter insertion can install 100,000 filters per day (25,000 filters every 6 hours), painting can decorate 36,000 juicers per day (3,000 juicers every half hour), and packaging can package 120,000 juicers per day (5,000 juicers per hour). Therefore, the bottleneck is the process with the lowest completion rate, which are exterior construction and pulp filter insertion. They both take a relatively long time to complete and limit the total output of the product.

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