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White Maple Company produces maple bookcases to customer order. It received an order from...

White Maple Company produces maple bookcases to customer order. It received an order from a customer to produce 15,000 bookcases. The following information is available for the production of the bookcases.

Process time 

16.0 days

Inspection time

0.5 days

Move time 

 5.5 days

Wait time 

18.0 days

Required

1. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle time.


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


Analysis Component

4.Assume that White Maple wishes to increase its manufacturing cycle efficiency to 0.75. What are some ways that it can accomplish this?

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