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What Nitrogen carrying “products” of metabolism are used to produce ATP during the Electron Transport Chain (oxidative phosphorylation)?

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A flow unit is generally associated with the inputs of a process. Hint: think about cookies. The inputs are ingredients including the flour. The process is making cookies. The output is cookie.  When we do process analysis, do we count the number of cookies or do we count the number of flours?

An electronics manufacturing company produces circuit boards using the four-step sequential process shown below. There is a single employee at each step. Step Processing Time per Circuit Board Component install 2 minutes Solder 2.5 minutes Inspection 1.5 minutes Test 3 minutes Assume demand is unlimited. To which step should an additional employee be assigned to increase process capacity? Hint: this question basically asks who is the bottle neck in a different way. By definition, bottle neck is the resource with lowest capacity. Who has the lowest capacity? – the one with longest processing time. This question actually does not require calculations.

During the Elicitation and Collaboration, a business analyst (BA) is conducting a series of workshops with stakeholders to uncover detailed business needs. After the workshops, stakeholders express confusion about some of the documented requirements. What should BA do?

The capacity of a resource is the average flow rate of that resource. Hint: think about that the demand rate defines the flow rate when the demand is low.

One employee is in charge of the following activities at a bank’s drive-through: Activity Activity Time per Customer Greet customer 3 seconds Take order 5 seconds Process order 3 minutes Print receipt 12 seconds What is the capacity (in customers per hour) of the employee? Hint: this is one resource. What is the total activity time per customer? 1 minute =60 seconds. Capacity = 1/processing time (per second). Cpacity per hour = capacity per second * “how many seconds per hour”.

8. What is the empirical formula of an oxide of nitrogen that contains 63.64% nitrogen by mass? a. NO b. NO2 c. N2O d. N2O5

A resource with a utilization of less than 100% cannot be the bottleneck. Hint: Alex Dua asked this question in class. Again, think about low demand rate.

Which of the following statements about a process is TRUE? Hint: why would I allow you to use the calculator??? I thought we also learned process diagrams.