Nestlé’s water bottling plant in rural Mecosta County, Michiganhas ten production lines that each have a theoretical ratedcapacity of 1200 bottles per minute. A natural disaster hasoccurred in Flint Michigan and the plant is now being ran at fullcapacity 24/7. There are five processes that are involved in thebottling of water: Per line Process Bottles per minute Processingtime minutes Molding 1200 0.19 Capping 2600 0.1506 Inspecting 60000.019 Labeling 3000 0.025 Printing 2500 0.032 On average duringthis time the plant is outputting 3.5 million bottles per day. Theplant manager feels very good about this number and telling thepress that his lines have never worked this hard before. Your bosshas suspected that something might be amiss here and has asked thatyou do some investigation. Work-in-progress at the facilityaverages approximately 120 million bottles and is shared equally byeach line at the facility. What is the critical WIP of theplant?
