How many pieces per hour can be assembled per hour for the b

How many pieces per hour can be assembled per hour for the below assembly line product? Explain your reasoning!

Solution

Any assembly operation time is determined by the slowest operation in the assembly which is also called as the bottleneck process.

If we look into different operations of the assembly A2 is the slowest process with only 90 pieces per hour of output.

So Assembly of only 90 pieces can be completed per hour at maximum.