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1 Bread Ahead Bakery has a plant processing Deluxe breakfast rolls and wants to better understand its capability. Last week the facility produced 148,000 rolls. The effective capacity is 175,000 rolls. The production line operates 7 days per week, with three 8 hour shifts per day. The line was designed to process the nut filled cinnamon flavoured Deluxe roll at a rate of 1,200 per hour. Determine the design capacity, utilization and efficiency for this plant when producing the Deluxe roll.

2 The same bakery has decided to increase its facilities by adding one additional process line. The firm will have two process lines, each working 7 days a week, 3 shifts per day, 8 hours per shift with an effective capacity of 300,000 rolls. This addition however will reduce overall system efficiency to 85%. Compute the expected production with this new effective capacity and determine utilisation.