A customer has an average daily demand of 40 parts. Your company
creates Kanbans with a 15% safety factor. The replenishment time
once a signal has been received is 8 hours and you have 8 hours
available per day. There are four kanban containers in process.
Calculate the number of units per kanban container
A) 12
B) 10
C) 11
D) 13
A customer has an average daily demand of 40 parts. Your company creates Kanbans with a 15% safety factor. The replenish...
A hinge manufacturing company employs a Kanban system for a component part. The daily demand is 870 hinges. Each container has a waiting time of 0.07 days and a processing time of 0.28 days. The container size is 58 hinges, and the safety factor (α) is 12 percent. Given this data, the number of Kanbans necessary for the system is: a. less than or equal to 4 Kanbans. b. more than 4 but less than or equal to 8 Kanbans....
Book : Lean Production for competitive advantage Author : Nicholas John M The daily demand of an item is 1600 units. The average processing time is 30 seconds per unit. Containers (carrying 240 items) on the average wait for 5 hours before being processed. Currently 8 containers (kanbans) are being used for this parts. Assume a production schedule of one 8-hour shift per day. What % safety margin of stock is being carried? If the demand increases to 1900 items,...
Explain how the production schedule is developed and communicated to the shop-floor in a Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing system. Q. B8 (a) (10 marks) Define kanban as it is understood in JIT systems and explain the role and operation of a conveyance or C kanban in the production system. (b) (6 marks) (c) Data for a particular part that is controlled by a two-card kanban system on a JIT feeder line is as follows: daily demand: 500 units average waiting and...
A manufacturing assembly line has a demand for specific part of 1,200 parts per eight-hour day. It wants to design a lean system using containers. It takes about four hours to round-trip a container from one work center to the next and back again. It also wants to hold 10% safety stock of this part in its system. a) Design a container system. State each container's size and how many are needed. b) Calculate the maximum system inventory for this...
Please answer all parts of question number 3 and type them and bold or underline the correct answers Baker Mfg Inc. wishes to compare its inventory turnover to those of industry leaders, who have turnover of about 1313 times per year and 88 % of their assets invested in inventory. Baker Mfg. Inc. Net Revenue $27 comma 50027,500 Cost of sales $19 comma 41019,410 Inventory $1 comma 2901,290 Total assets $17 comma 82017,820 a) What is Baker's inventory turnover?...
Acme Manufacturing Forecasting Analysis Paralysis Acme produces technology parts used by the manufacturers of self-driving vehicles. The primary demand for Acme’s four products is dependent on the output of the manufacturer’s MRP systems. Acme produces the required quantities for the manufacturers and ships them just-in-time to reach the production lines. Acme also must provide inventory to support the repair of vehicles after they are sold to consumers. To meet this additional demand, they augment their internal production plans by adding...
INTERNAL CONTROL ANALYSIS A company that produces component parts for automobile manufacturers has grown rapidly since its incorporation several years ago. Management is concerned about internal controls over the purchasing cycle because the cost of goods sold percentage has continued to rise even though it seems that many of the raw materials and supplies used in production are costing less. The following description of the purchasing process is available: Pre-numbered purchase requisitions are used to order ...
PART I: Multiple Choice Write all answers to the following questions. No partial credit available. Consumption utility is composed of price and convenience. True or False? A firm reduces inefficiencies by making trade-offs. True or False? A firm can increase its profitability by: A. increasing costs and reducing price. B. moving away from the efficient frontier. C. increasing inefficiencies. D. reducing inefficiencies. Operations comes from the Latin word "opus," which means: A. activity. B. helping people. C. improvement. D. work....
Case Studies Jackson Manufacturing Company Kathleen McFadden, vice president of operations at Jackson Manufacturing Company, has just received a request for quote (RFQ) from DeKalb Electric Supply for 400 units per week of a motor armature. The components are standard and either easy to work into the existing production schedule or readily available from established suppliers on a JIT basis. But there is some difference in assembly. Ms. McFadden has identified eight tasks that Jackson must perform to assemble the...
INTERNAL CONTROL ANALYSIS A company that produces component parts for automobile manufacturers has grown rapidly since its incorporation several years ago. Management is concerned about internal controls over the purchasing cycle because the cost of goods sold percentage has continued to rise even though it seems that many of the raw materials and supplies used in production are costing less. The following description of te purchasing process is available. (1).Pre-numbered purchase requisitions are used to order most goods, except...