Castner Corporation is considering implementation of a JIT inventory system. The company’s industrial engineer recently conducted a study to determine the average number of days spent in each activity of the production process. The following table summarizes her findings:
Production Activity | Number of Days |
Inspecting materials | 3 |
Storing materials | 17 |
Moving materials into production | 3 |
Setting up production equipment | 2 |
Cutting materials | 6 |
Bending materials | 5 |
Assembling finished products | 9 |
Painting finished products | 5 |
Instructions
a. Identify Castner’s value-added production activities.
b. Identify Castner’s non-value-added production activities.
c. Calculate Castner’s total cycle time.
d. Determine Castner’s manufacturing efficiency ratio.
e. Which of the above activities might be reduced or eliminated if Castner implemented a JIT system?
f. What ethical issues might be related to eliminating some of the non-value-added activities?
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