A new facility is to be designed to produce plastic toys for children. There is no such an existing facility, so it should be designed from scratch within an old three-floor building. The information to be supplied for generating alternative layouts for improvement is to be listed as the departmental relationship chart, machining and area requirements of the departments, shape and dimensions of the existing building, machine and workforce requirements, and material handling requirements. Based on the sizes of the machines a unit template is determined to be used in representing of the area requirements of the departments. Since there is no demand forecast for the products, it is not possible to quantify the flow between departments.

A manager is trying to decide whether to purchase a certain part or to have it produced internally Internal production could use either of two processes. One would entail a variable cost of $17 per unit and an annual fixed cost of $200,000, the other would entail a variable cost of $14 per unit and an annual fixed cost of $240,000. Three vendors are willing to provide the part. Vendor A has a price of $20 per unit for any volume up to 30,000 units. Vendor B has a price of $22 per unit for demand of 1,000 units or less, and $18 per unit for larger quantities. Vendor Coffers a price of $21 per unit for the first 1,000 units, and $19 per unit for additional units a. If the manager anticipates an annual volume of 10,000 units, which alternative would be best from a cost standpoint?" For 20,000 units, which alternative would be best" b. Determine the range for which each alternative is best. Are there any alternatives that are never best? Which?

A company is designing an assembly line for a new line of lamps. It has identified 9 tasks and arranged them as in the following figure. The number in each circle represents the time to complete the task in minutes. Demand for the product is expected to be 20,000 units a year. The new as- sembly line is scheduled to work 8 hour days, 5 day weeks and 50 weeks per 6. year. E 4 F H A B 4 3. ది

Please ignore diagram in the picture. The focus is on filling out the table based on information provided in bold text.  You have an upstream department that feeds two downstream packing departments: Pack Singles and Pack Multis. Those Packing departments feed a Shipping department that loads the outbound truck. 40% of your Pick volume goes to Pack Singles and has a packing rate 171 units per labor hour. 70% of the Pick volume goes to Pack multis and has a pack rate rate of 266 units per labor hour.  Your pickers pick both single and multis items all day at an overall average rate of 114 units per labor hour. All units process go through the ship process at a rate of 570 units per hour. If you have 102 people and must pack 47,880 ints in pack multis over a 10 hour shift, fill out table below: Department % Volume Rate Daily volume Number of people Pick         Pack single       12 Pack multus         Ship