Flores Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kanbans to support its electronic-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the ka subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed. The kanban size is Setup cost $28 Annual holding cost subassembly $240 per subassembly Daily production 550 subassemblies Annual usage Lead time, Safety stock 60,000 (50 weeks x 5 days each x daily usage of 240 subassemblies) 2 days 1 2 day's production of subassemblies (round your response to the nearest whole number).

Maggie Moylan Motorcycle Corp. uses kanbans to support its transmission assembly line. Determine the size of the kanban for the mainshaft assembly and the number of kanbans needed. Setup cost Annual holding cost Daily production Annual usage Lead time Safety stock $20 $200 per mainshaft 320 mainshafts/day 20,000 (50 weeks x 5 days each x daily usage of 80 mainshafts) 2 days 0.50 days' production Kanban container size = mainshafts (round your response to the nearest whole number). Number of kanbans = kanbans (round your response to the nearest whole number).

Just-in-time (JIT) does NOT include which one of the following? a. Lean manufacturing b. Batch sizes of one c. Fast-throughput manufacturing d. High inventory production

A paint company has three sources for buying bright red pigment for its paints: Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand. Unfortunately, the pigment is made from a bush whose annual growth is heavily dependent upon the amount of rainfall during the growing season. The following tables show probabilities and prices for wet, dry, and normal growing seasons. Probabilities Wet Dry Normal Vietnam 0.5 0.2 Taiwan 0.6 0.3 Thailand 0.4 0.4 Price/Pound ($) Vietnam 0.96 1.11 Taiwan 0.86 1.25 Wet Dry Normal Thailand 0.92 1.19 0.3 What country shoul the company select? Thailand Taiwan Vietnam 0.1 0.2 1.05 0.99 1.06 What is the expected value (price) associated with it?

Which of the following terms is not part of the Toyota Production System (TPS)?a. Ikko-nagashib. Kanbanc. Jidokad. Yakimonoe. Genchi genbutsu

Pauline Found Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kanbans to support its telephone switching-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the kanban for subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed. Setup cost Annual holding cost Daily production Annual usage Lead time Safety stock $30 $120 per subassembly 30 subassemblies 3,000 (50 weeks × 5 days each × daily usage of 12 subassemblies) 12 days 2 days' production Kanban container size = ☐ units (round your response to the nearest whole number).

Cletus and Spike Company is implementing a Kanban system for a heated water bowl manufacturing line that produces 1,500 units in an eight-hour day. The heating element has a waiting time of 30 minutes and a processing time of one hour. The container size is 40 heating elements, and the safety factor is 15 percent. How many Kanban cards should be used?   a. 9     b. 12     c. 2     d. 27

explain how containers or cards are used in kanban system