Raj’s commercial laundry has contracts to wash bed sheets for

hotels. raj intakes each batch of sheets, which takes 1 minute, then

the sheets are washed taking 20 minutes and dried taking 30

minutes. the batch of sheets is ironed taking 10 minutes for each

batch and there are 2 employees ironing sheets. finally, raj

packages the sheets and bills the customer taking 2 minutes. raj has

5 wash machines and 7 dryers that each can process one batch of

sheets.

what is the process capacity of the laundry system and what is the
bottleneck?

what is the average throughput time of the system for each batch
of sheets

if the flow rate is 10 batches per hour, what is the average number
of batches of sheets in the system (inventory)

Sailcloth & more currently produces boat sails and is considering expanding its operations to include awnings for homes and travel trailers. the company owns land beside its current manufacturing facility that could be used for the expansion. the company bought this land 5 years ago at a cost of $319,000. at the time of purchase, the company paid $24,000 to level out the land so it would be suitable for future use. today, the land is valued at $295,000. the company has some unused equipment that it currently owns valued at $38,000. this equipment could be used for producing awnings if $12,000 is spent for equipment modifications. other equipment costing $490,000 will also be required. what is the amount of the initial cash flow for this expansion project?