Produce certain part for one of production plant

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Little Law: A job shop recently signed a contract with a manufacturer to produce a certain part for one of its production plant. The production process comprises these stages: Foundry, machining, polishing and packaging. Job requests come at the rate of 50 per day (8 hours working day). Foundry takes 10 minutes per job on the average, machining takes 15 minutes per job, polishing takes 28 minutes per job and packaging takes five minutes per part. Answer the following:

The throughput rate is =

The average "waiting time" in the system is = minutes

The average inventory in the system (WIP) is = jobs

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