A bottling plant fills 2,400 bottles every two hours. The lead time is 50 minutes and a container accommodates 80 bottles. The safety stock is 30 percent of expected demand. How many kanban cards are needed? (Round up your answer to the next whole number.) Number of kanban card sets
The scheduling system for lean manufacturing and just-in-time manufacturing and inventory-control system for supply chain is called Kanban.
In kanban system, kanban cards are placed on kanban board that act as a visual control and signaling system. The kanban system monitor the work in progress and does not pull the work and make it active without proper resources that is required to do that work. The aim of Kanban is to promote transparency in the workflow within the organization in order to make the employees and management aware of the process they are involved in and what is their role within the organization. In this way employees and management could improve their effort to make the entire process effective for the organization.
A bottling plant fills 2,400 bottles every two hours. The lead time is 50 minutes and...
Question Help Consider the following information: Demand rate (D) = 1,500 units per hour Lead time (T) = 7 hours Container capacity (C)= 220 units Safety factor (x) = 20% a. The number of kanban production cards is (Enter your response rounded up to the next whole number.) b. The cards will represent hours' worth of demand. (Enter your response rounded to one decimal place.) c. Suppose the safety factor is eliminated. The number of kanban production cards is to...
Consider the following information: Demand rate (D) = 270 units per hour Lead time (T) = 10 hours Container capacity (C) = 30 units Safety factor (x) = 10% a. The number of kanban production cards is (Enter your response rounded up to the next whole number.)
Transmissions are delivered to the fabrication line four at a time. It takes one hour for transmissions to be delivered. Approximately four vehicles are produced each hour, and management has decided that 50 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.) Number of kanban card sets
Meritor, a company that makes muffler assemblies for the automotive industry, is committed to the use of kanban to pull material through its manufacturing cells. Meritor has designed each cell to fabricate a specific family of muffler products. Fabricating a muffler assembly involves cutting and bending pieces of pipe that are welded to a muffler and a catalytic converter. The mufflers and catalytic converters are pulled into the cell based on current demand. The catalytic converters are made in a...
Meritor, a company that makes muffler assemblies for the automotive industry, is committed to the use of kanban to pull material through its manufacturing cells. Meritor has designed each cell to fabricate a specific family of muffler products. Fabricating a muffler assembly involves cutting and bending pieces of pipe that are welded to a muffler and a catalytic converter. The mufflers and catalytic converters are pulled into the cell based on current demand. The catalytic converters are made in a...
High Tech Manufacturing manufactures 256GB SD cards (memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras, and other devices). Price and cost data for a relevant range extending to 200.000 units per month are as follows: (Click the icon to view the data.) Data Table Read the requirements. Requirement 1. What is the company's contribution margin per unit? Contribution margin percentage? Total contribution margin? 20.00 Begin by identifying the formula. = Contribution margin per unit The contribution margin per unit is $...
High Tech Manufacturing manufactures 256GB SD cards (memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras, and other devices). Price and cost data for a relevant range extending to 200.000 units per month are as follows: E (Click the icon to view the data.) Data Table Read the requirements. Requirement 1. What is the company's contribution margin per unit? Contribution margin percentage? Total contribution margin? (current monthly sales volume is 130,000 units) Sales price per unit: 20.00 Begin by identifying the formula....
FlashCo. Manufacturing manufactures 256GB SD cards (memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras, and other devices). Price and cost data fc relevant range extending to 200,000 units per month are as follows: (Click the icon to view the data.) Read the requirements. Requirement 1. What is the company's contribution margin per unit? Contribution margin percentage? Total contribution margin? Begin by identifying the formula = Contribution margin per unit The contribution margin per unit is $ What is the company's contribution...
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"Two dollars of gross margin per briefcase? That's ridiculous!" roared Roy Thurmond, president of First-Line Cases, Inc. "Why do we go on producing those standard briefcases when we’re able to make over $12 per unit on our specialty items? Maybe it’s time to get out of the standard line and focus the whole plant on specialty work." Mr. Thurmond was referring to a summary of unit costs and revenues that he had just received from the company’s accounting department: StandardBriefcasesSpecialtyBriefcasesSelling price per...