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?

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Adding 600,001 units to both Exterior Construction and Pulp Filter Insertion would allow the plant to produce 4.2 million juicers per month (3 million from Exterior Construction, 3 million from Pulp Filter Insertion, 4.32 million from Painting, and 3.6 million from Packaging). This would shift the bottleneck to the Packaging process, as it has a lower completion rate than the other processes. Therefore, adding 600,001 units per month would be the most efficient way to increase overall monthly capacity and address the bottleneck.

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