Flores Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kanbans to support its electronic-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the kanban for subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed. Setup cost $16 Annual holding cost subassembly $250 per subassembly 600 subassemblies Daily production Annual usage 62,500 (-50 weeks x5 days each x daily usage of 250 subassemblies) Lead time Safely stock The kanban size is round your response to the nearest whole number) 2 days 1 day's production of subassemblies

Hartley Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners for the defense industry. You have been asked by the owner, Janet Hartley, to reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of analysis, you develop the following data for s connectors used in one work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this connector? Number of kanbans = kanbans (round your response to the nearest whole number). Daily demand Lead time Safety stock Kanban size 1,000 connectors 2 days 0.50 day 500 connectors

Reduction in inventories can results in a significant increase in return on investment (ROI) O a. True O b. False

Which item below is not a characteristic of a lean system?   a. Waste reduction   b. Production in large lot sizes   c. High quality   d. Minimum inventory   e. All of the above   f. None of the above

Tooltron Manufacturing uses a Kanban system for a component. Daily demand is 410 units. Each container has a combined waiting and processing time of 1.6 days. If the container size is 30 and the alpha value (a) is 17 percent, how many Kanban card sets should be authorized? Round your answer up to the whole number. Kanban cards What is the maximum authorized inventory? Use the rounded value from the previous question. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. units