Ace communications hashired you as an independent consultant to build a new database using their existing sql server software. ace communications runs conferences for various trade organizations (customers). the conferences are generally held in a city and hotel of their customers choosing. each conference has various sessions that the attendees of the conference can enroll in. ace needs a database to maintain information about their customers, conferences, sessions, and attendees.

Consider the simple 3-station assembly line illustrated below, where the 2 machines at station 1 are parallel, i. e., the product only needs to go through one of the 2 machines before proceeding to station 2.what is the throughput time of this process?

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3. ranga ramasesh is the operations manager for a firm that is trying to decide which one of four countries it should research for possible outsourcing providers. the first step is to select a country based on cultural risk factors, which are critical to eventual business success with the provider. ranga has reviewed outsourcing provider directories and found that the four countries in the table that follows have an ample number of providers from which they can choose. to aid in the country selection step, he has enlisted the aid of a cultural expert, john wang, who has provided ratings of the various criteria in the table. the resulting ratings are on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is a low risk and 10 is a high risk. john has also determined six criteria weightins: trust, with a weight of 0.3; quality, with 0.2; religious, with 0.1; individualism, with 0.2; time, with 0.1; and uncertainity, with 0.1. using the factor-rating method, which country should ranga select? why? (2 points)