National Cranberyy Essay

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Assignment 1 – National Cranberry Cooperative 1. Briefly summarize major trends in the cranberry industry in 1996. What are the problems facing receiving plant #1 (RP1)? 2. Draw a flowchart for the current process for handling process fruit at RP1, starting from temporary holding bins and ending at the separators (i.e. ignore the berry dumping, truck weighing and berry grading process before that, and bagging and bulking process after that. These activities are never a bottleneck). Draw one flowchart only which shows the flow for both dry and wet berries. Mark the capacity in barrels per hour of each process activity. 3. What is the throughput rate (or capacity per hour) of the system measured in terms of the system input (i.e. cranberries delivered to the plant)? Where is the bottleneck? 4. Assuming that on a peak day, the plant receives 20,000 bbls of process berries, how long will the processing be completed? how long will a truck carrying wet berries have to wait on average before the berries can be unloaded? 5. Do the same analysis as in Question 4 for a busy day when the plant receives 16,000 bbls of berries, and for a normal day when the plant receives 10,000 bbls of berries. 6. In the current system, on a peak day, it takes a long time to complete berry processing, and a large percentage of trucks carrying wet berries have to wait. Discuss options that can reduce processing completion time and options that can reduce or even eliminate truck waiting

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