Dechaff‚ and Dry) start from 7am. B. On an average “busy” day‚ there are 18‚000 bbls delivered over 12-hour period (from 7am to 7pm). C. Wet berries are 70% of all berries. D. Holding bins 17-24 are dedicated to wet berries. E. Capacity of each of five dumpers is 600 bbl/hr. F. Capacity for Dechaffers and Separators are not divided for dry and wet berries. G. There are 20 peak days in one year‚ where there is truck waiting happened. H. Truck Drivers are paid by $18/hr Please prepare the answers
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1) too much waiting period for trucks before they unload berries at the RP1 and 2) too much overtime costs. There is also a secondary problem regarding grading of process berries. Half of the berries graded top quality are actually not top quality and do not deserve extra premiums paid on the top quality berries. 2.) Process Analysis We start by making a process flow diagram for the flow of berries at RP1 from the moment berries arrive at the RP1 in trucks to the moment they leave in RP1 after
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truck-waiting time and costs annoying the berry growers Excessive labour costs Poor berry grading system } } Wet Berries 58% System throughput rate : 1200 bbls/hr Wet Berries 70% System throughput rate : 1050 bbls/hr Wet Berries 70%‚ with a Dryer System throughput rate : 1200 bbls/hr 3500 3000 2500 Berries (bbls) 2000 58% Wet Berries‚ 11am Start 70% Wet Berries‚ 11am Start 70% Wet Berries‚ 7am Start 1500 1000 70% Wet Berries‚ 7am Start‚ 1 Dryer 500 7-8 8-9
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Bottleneck and overtime hours • On peak days can expect 18‚879 bbls • Wet berries → 0.7*18‚879 = 13‚215 bbls/day • Wet berry process time → total bbls/dryer capacity → 13‚215 bbls/600 bbls/hr = 22 hours • Dry berries process time → 5‚664 bbls/600 bbls/hr =9.44 hours • Buying an extra dryer for $60‚000 increases dryer capacity from 600 to 800 bbls/hr • New wet berries process time → 13‚215/800 =16.5 hours • New dry berries process time → 5‚664/400 = 14.2 hours • Reduces bottleneck by 22-16.5
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most tribes‚ the women gathered the small foods like roots and berries‚ and the men hunted for the meat( also called big game and small game‚ depending on how big the animal was). Some different roots the women collected include camas bulb‚ bitterroot‚ khouse‚ wild carrot‚ and wild potatoes. Some berries that the women gathered include service berries‚ gooseberries‚ hawthorn berries‚ thorn berries‚ huckleberries‚ currants‚ elder berries‚ chokecherries‚ blackberries‚ raspberries‚ and wild strawberries
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effectively? Should crews be scheduled differently on peak days? Would the installation of a berry grader positively impact the farmers’ income or the cooperative’s? What is the impact of installing one new dryer? Two new dryers? Walliston - superintendent at RP1 install 2 new dryers ($25‚000 each) and convert dry berry holding bins so that they can be used to store either water harvested or dry berries ($5000 per bin) Equipment and installation lead times are in excess of 6 months Hugo Schaeffer
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dumper‚ this did not seem to help overtime costs. This assumes that it is the delay in trucks emptying their contents that caused the overtime to be required. A potential cause is the lack of dryers and the lack of berry appropriate holding bins‚ i.e. not enough wet or dry berry holding bins – these causes are inferred from Mel O’Brien’s comments on page one of the case. NCC invested in increasing capacity but not hire adequate full time labor to handle the incremental capacity (hence higher
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it is to have your hard work go to waste. Heaney opens the poem by describing the weather condition which shows what time of the year is usually good for berries to be picked. Then‚ he goes further to describe the condition of berries and then states what to expect when you pick the right berries. By using simile he compares the ripened berries to thickened wine which also refers to blood. “Then red ones linked up and that hunger sent us out with milk cans‚ pea tins jam pots’ Heaney’s use of diction
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spending his day eating handfuls of blackberries. Narrator Yusef Komunyakaa paints a picture of the day. The perfect stains left from the juices of the berries‚ as well as concluding the day of picking wild blackberries by describing a memory of when he was younger. His fingers not only stained from the berries‚ also by the blood from picking the berries that were “too ripe to touch.” This poem is about forgiveness and the affects of how limbo can change a person. Firstly‚ picking blackberries is a symbol
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understand the poet’s ideas within the words because of its vivid details. The visual images in line two have a clear picture of blackberry bushes filled with berries. Each adjective is like berry after berry‚ selected‚ plucked and popped into your mouth. The repetition of "black blackberries" tries to show you the greatness of the berries being so delicious. The line stating “stalks very prickly‚" shows the sharpness of the bushes. Black is said many times and shows the true meaning with each vivid
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