Transmissions are delivered to the fabrication line four at a time. It takes one hour for transmissions to be delivered. Approximately five vehicles are produced each hour, and management has decided that 40 percent of expected demand should be maintained as safety stock. How many Kanban card sets are needed? (Round up your answer to the next whole number.) The Deming Cycle is: A. a checklist that enables managers to evaluate employee performance more systematically. B. a systematic method of evaluating potential facility locations. C. a process for finding potential quality errors before they occur. D. a process for using identical production steps in the creation of different types of products.

Looking for cost savings in administrative areas, the vice-president for human resources at McMahon Corporation asked his assistant to collect data on the employee cafeterias in the four McMahon locations around the country. After two days, the assistant returned with the following data for the previous year. Mobile Lansing Spokane 23,500 Реcos Labor-hours 37,300 56,300 5,400 Meals served 114,000 222,000 79,000 13,900 Required: a. Compute the partial productivity measures for labor for the four locations. (Round your answers to 3 decimal places.) Partial Labor Location Productivity Mobile Ресos Spokane Lansing

DataSpan, Incorporated, automated its plant at the start of the current year and installed a flexible manufacturing system. The company is also evaluating its suppliers and moving toward Lean Production. Many adjustment problems have been encountered, including problems relating to performance measurement. After much study, the company has decided to use the performance measures below, and it has gathered data relating to these measures for the first four months of operations. Throughput time (days) Delivery cycle time (days) Manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) Percentage of on-time deliveries Total sales (units) 1 2 Month ? ? ? ? ? ? 91% 86% 3,460 3,312 Move time per unit Process time per unit Wait time per order before start of production Queue time per unit Inspection time per unit 3 ? ? ? 82% 3,143 4 Management has asked for your help in computing throughput time, delivery cycle time, and MCE. The following average times have been logged over the last four months: ? ? ? 78% 3,025…

You work for a firm of management consultants that offers assistance to new businesses. One of your clients is Blossom Manufacturing, a company that manufactures a small, but vital, component for the specialized lighting industry. Blossom is a new company (and a new client for your employer) and you have been assigned the task of advising it of its options for financing its inventory during the first few months. The marketing experts have told you that Blossom should have at least three months of inventory on hand so it can meet all demands from its customers. The annual production of the Blossom component is projected to be 140,400 units. Annual direct labour and direct material costs together are estimated at $351,000 per year. Variable manufacturing costs are estimated to be $210,600 per year; fixed manufacturing costs are projected to be $585,000 per year. Fixed marketing and administration costs are estimated at $819,000 per year. These projections are all for the company's first…

Please answer quick in 30 minutes. Prepare a comprehensive report to management highlighting three-year make-or-buy unit cost analysis and recommend appropriate action. What are the other non-cost variables that would be helpful in this analysis? As a manufacturing analyst, you are a member of a make-or-buy review team for electric components and work for a multinational company, TransAll Ltd. Your marketing group estimates the following volumes for a component required for motor assembly: Year 1; 300,000 units, Year 2: 500,000 units, Year 3: 200,000 units. A Chinese supplier has quoted the price as Mu(monetary unit) 0.10 per unit with 10 % price decrease per year for year 2 and 3 for the same component. . Shipping and handling costs are expected to be Mu 0.01 per unit for years 1 through 3. Additional inventory handling charges are Mu 0.005 per unit. In addition, purchasing costs are estimated at Mu 20 per purchase order with a purchase order being released every month for the…

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