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Quick Dry Ink produces ink-jet printers for personal computers. It received an order for 6...

Quick Dry Ink produces ink-jet printers for personal computers. It received an order for 600 printers from a customer. The following information is available for this order.

Process time

16.0 hours

Inspection time

3.4 hours

Move time

9.0 hours

Wait time 

21.6 hours

Required

1. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle time.


2. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle efficiency. Interpret your answer.


Analysis Component

3. Assume that Quick Dry Ink wishes to increase its manufacturing cycle efficiency to 0.80. What are some ways that it can accomplish this?

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