1. Littlefield Technologies Simulation
It was not effectively processing items through station 2 and was exceeding the utilization of all stations in the production process. ... Capacity Management In order to determine the number of machines to purchase for each station we started by pulling all historical data for the plant to analyze the potential bottlenecks. ... To resolve we changed the scheduling policy to process items from station 3 with priority. ... There were 2 ways to deal with the backlog: we could have increased the capacity of the factory more, so that the extra kits already in process are processed, or we could hav...
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