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Kirsten Cookie Case Solution

The document outlines the process and cycle times for making a dozen cookies, which takes 26 minutes total. The bottleneck is the 10 minutes required for baking one dozen cookies in the oven. Considering this bottleneck and that activities like mixing and cooling can happen in parallel, the bakery can produce 22 batches of cookies, or 22 dozen cookies, within a 4 hour night shift.

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Kirsten Cookie Case Solution

The document outlines the process and cycle times for making a dozen cookies, which takes 26 minutes total. The bottleneck is the 10 minutes required for baking one dozen cookies in the oven. Considering this bottleneck and that activities like mixing and cooling can happen in parallel, the bakery can produce 22 batches of cookies, or 22 dozen cookies, within a 4 hour night shift.

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Cycle time for each task is given above: Washing and mixing step6mins ; spooning the cookies 2 mins,

, setup time for baking 1 min ;


baking time 9 mins ; cookie cooling 5mins ; packing 2 mins ;
Accepting payment 1min
Throughput time for making cookie is 26 mins.
In this case the oven can bake 1 dozen at a time , and the bottleneck in the
process is total baking time( Setp time + baking time) which is 10mins which
accounts for maximum cycle time. Once the first dozen baking is over, the
second dozen of cookies would be ready & can be kept for baking , by the time
second baking is finished cookie cooling+ packing + accepting payment for first
dozen of cookie would have finished.
Considering 3 parallel major activity in this case :
Activity 1: washing & mixing step + spooning =6+2= 8 mins
Activity 2 : setup time+ baking time = 9+1=10mins
Activity 3: Cookie cooling+packing +accepting payment = 5+2+1
=8mins
Considering the above scenario, total number of batches that can be made
within 4 hours (240 mins) is
Activity 1 +Activity 2 * Number of batches + Activity 3 = 240mins
8 + 10*X + 8mins =240
X =22.4 round it to 22 batches
So, total of 22 batches or 22 dozens of cookie can be produces in a night of 4
working hours .

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