Chuck Sox makes wooden boxes in which to ship motorcycles. Chuck and his three employees invest a total of 40 hours per day making the 400 boxes. a) Their productivity = boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). Chuck and his employees have discussed redesigning the process to improve efficiency. Suppose they can increase the rate to 500 boxes per day. b) Their new productivity = boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). c) The unit increase in productivity is boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). % (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two d) The percentage increase in productivity is decimal places).

Answer format: Number: Round to: 2 decimal places.

How many workers are needed at each stage if management wants a utilization of at least 85 percent? Round your answers up to the nearest whole number. Stage A: __  workers Stage B: __  workers Stage C: __  workers Stage D: __  workers Stage E: __   workers Suppose that the number of workers at each stage are as follows:   Stage Number of Workers A 5 B 3 C 7 D 5 E 2   What is the output rate at each stage? Round your answers to the nearest whole number. Stage A: __   units/hour Stage B: __  units/hour Stage C: __  units/hour Stage D: __  units/hour Stage E: __  units/hour Where is the bottleneck in this process? The bottleneck is  (Stage A, B, C, D, or E).

George Kyparisis makes bowling balls in his Miami plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. George is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of a 3% increase in productivity. He has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year: Units Produced Labor (hours) Resin (pounds) Capital Invested ($) Energy (BTU) The percent change in productivity for one month last year versus one month this year or decimal places). Last Year 1,200 300 50 9,000 3,000 Now 1,200 275 45 10,000 2,850 Cost Per Input Unit $10 per hour $5 per pound 1% per month $0.50 per BTU multifactor basis with dollars as the common denominator = % (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two