Simon decided to start a coffee manufacturing company called Country Brew Coffee (CBC). Coffee is a competitive commodity market, therefore crucial for CBC to improve the performance of their torrefaction process, which is depicted below: Blending Roasting Grinding & Packing Ground coffee Waste Waste Waste The process consists of three steps: blending of different coffee beans followed by roasting of the blend, and finally grinding and packing. CBC plans to have three extremely reliable continuous processing machines for the three steps. To ensure the freshness of coffee, at no point in the process can one build work-in-process inventories. The performance of the individual processing machines is described below. Step1 Step2 Step3
Simon decided to start a coffee manufacturing company called Country Brew Coffee (CBC). Coffee is a competitive commodity market, therefore crucial for CBC to…