Consider a process consisting of three resources. Assume there exists unlimited demand for the product, and that all activities are always performed in the following sequence. Resource 1 has a processing time of 8 minutes per unit. Resource 2 has a processing time of 5 minutes per unit. Resource 3 has a processing time of 7 minutes per unit. All three resources are staffed by one worker and each worker gets paid $12 per hour.
Instruction: Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round "cost of direct labor" "takt time" and "target manpower" to 2 decimal places and "capacity of the process" answer to 1 decimal place. Round 'average labor utilization" percent to 2 decimal places.

a. What is the cost of direct labor? $ 9.00 per unit
b. What is the labor content? 36 minutes per unit
c. What is the average labor utilization? 80.00 percent
d. Assume the demand rate is 16 units per hour. What is the takt time? 3.75 minutes per unit
e. Assume the demand rate is 16 units per hour. What is the target manpower? L 9.60 employees
f. If one additional worker could be hired, to which resource should the additional resources be assigned? Calculate the process capacity. units per hour
g. If they could take 1 minute of task time from one resource and give it to another resource (so the labor content remains the same), What would be the new capacity of the process (units per hour)? Assume that there is still only 1 worker per station. units per hour What would be the capacity of the process if they integrated the work so that all
h. workers do all three tasks (units per hour)?