Abe earns $20/hr up to 40 hours/week and then earns $30/hr for each hour beyond 40 hours (overtime pay). If Abe is scheduled to complete the entire week’s work himself, how much will he be paid given the new workstation utilization?

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Capacity Requirements Planning

Abe is typically scheduled to operate 4 machines at his workstation for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. During every 8 hours of scheduled work, Abe takes 45 minutes of break. He must perform 20 minutes of maintenance on each machine (separately) during every 8 hours of scheduled work. Abe is unable process work while he is performing maintenance.

Abe’s company is making some changes to the maintenance schedule. The changes will result in a new weekly capacity of 6000 minutes when Abe is scheduled for a 40-hour work week.

The following jobs are to be done at the workstation next week (times are in minutes):

 

Job

# Units

Setup Time

Run Time/Unit

A

840

25

3

B

152

50

6

C

525

60

4

e) Abe earns $20/hr up to 40 hours/week and then earns $30/hr for each hour beyond 40 hours (overtime pay). If Abe is scheduled to complete the entire week’s work himself, how much will he be paid given the new workstation utilization?

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