Question

polly's products has four producing departments. All products use each department.The maximum departmental output is as follows: Dept1 740 dept2 630 dept3 680 dept4 675 a)which department is the most constraining? b)what is the maximum output for the company? c)if the constraining department's output were raiseb by 100 units what would be the new maximum output? d)where should inspection take place if there are only enough inspectors to cover two departments ?

Answer 1

• Answer ‘a’

Department 2 is the most constraining department because it has the lower capacity of 630 outputs.

• Answer ‘b’

Maximum Output for the company will be equal to the output of the most constraining department, which is Department 2.

Hence maximum output = 630 units

• Answer ‘c’

If 100 units are added to Department 2, it will become 630 + 100 = 730 units.

The new constraining department will be Department 4 with 675 units of output.

New maximum output will be 675 units.

• Answer ‘d’

Inspection would take place in Department 2 and Department 4.