An assembly station is asked to process 100 circuit boardsper hour. It takes 20 minutes to receive the necessary components from the previous workstation. Completed circuitboards are placed in a rack that will hold 10 boards. Therack must be full before it is sent on to the next workstation. If the factory uses a safety factor of 10%, how manykanbans are needed for the circuit board assembly process?

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An assembly station is asked to process 100 circuit boards
per hour. It takes 20 minutes to receive the necessary components from the previous workstation. Completed circuit
boards are placed in a rack that will hold 10 boards. The
rack must be full before it is sent on to the next workstation. If the factory uses a safety factor of 10%, how many
kanbans are needed for the circuit board assembly process?

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