Reference no: EM132224819

Canine Kennels Company? (CKC) manufactures two different types of dog chew toys? (A and? B, sold in? 1,000-count boxes) that are manufactured and assembled on three different workstations? (W, X, and? Y) using a? small-batch process? (see the figure? below). Batch setup times are negligible. The flowchart denotes the path each product follows through the manufacturing? process, and each? product's price, demand per? week, and processing times per unit are indicated as well. Purchased parts and raw materials consumed during production are represented by inverted triangles. CKC can make and sell up to the limit of its demand per? week; no penalties are incurred for not being able to meet all the demand. Each workstation is staffed by a worker who is dedicated to work on that workstation alone and is paid? $6 per hour. Total labor costs per week are fixed. Variable overhead costs are? $3,500/week. The plant operates one? 8-hour shift per? day, or 40? hours/week. $2 $6 $5 $3 Step 1 Step 1 Station W Station X Step 2 Step 2 Station W Station X Product A Product B Raw materials Raw materials (11 min) (20 min) (20 min) (10 min) Purchased part Purchased part x y graph Step 3 Step 3 Station Y Station Y Product: A Product: B (19 min) (12 min) Price: $55/unit Demand: 80 units/wk Demand: 75 units/wk Price: $65/unit x y graph Which of the three? workstations, W,? X, or Y has the highest aggregate? workload, and thus serves as the bottleneck for? CKC? Workstation Y Workstation X Workstation W ?, with a total load time of nothing minutes. ?(Enter your response as an? integer.)