Shared equally by each line at facility

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Nestle’s water bottling plant in rural Mecosta County, Michigan has ten production lines that each have a theoretical rated capacity of 1200 bottles per minute. A natural disaster has occurred in Flint Michigan and the plant is now being ran at full capacity 24/7. There are five processes that are involved in the bottling of water: Per line Process Bottles per minute Processing time minutes Molding 1200 0.19 Capping 2600 0.1506 Inspecting 6000 0.019 Labeling 3000 0.025 Printing 2500 0.032 On average during this time the plant is outputting 3.5 million bottles per day. The plant manager feels very good about this number and telling the press that his lines have never worked this hard before. Your boss has suspected that something might be amiss here and has asked that you do some investigation. Work-in-progress at the facility averages approximately 120 million bottles and is shared equally by each line at the facility. What is the critical WIP of the plant?

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