Gestalt, Inc. uses a kanban system in its automobile produc-tion facility in Germany. This facility operates 8 hours per dayto produce the Jitterbug, a replacement for the obsolete butimmensely popular Jitney Beetle. Suppose that a certain partrequires 150 seconds of processing at machine cell 33B anda container of parts average 1.6 hours of waiting time there.Management allows a 10 percent buffer for unexpected oc-currences. Each container holds 30 parts, and 8 containersare authorized. How much daily demand can be satisfied with this system? (Hint: Recall that r is the average process-ing time per container, not per individual part.)

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Lean Production

The word lean refers to the “slim “that is used in manufacturing for the systematic designing that focuses on minimizing the waste in the manufacturing or production with the constant productivity of the operation. Lean manufacturing was rooted from Toyota Production system a Japanese manufacturing company that works on the approach of minimizing the non-value-added activities and making the production lean.