Management of Mittel Company wants to reduce the elapsed time from when a customer places an order to when it is shipped. It provided the following data for a recent quarter: Inspection time. Wait time (from order to start of production) Process time Move time Queue time Required: 1. Compute the throughput time. Note: Round your answer to 1 decimal place. 2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent. 3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non-value-added activities? Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent. 4. Compute the delivery cycle time. Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place. 5. If using Lean Production eliminates all queue time, what will be the new MCE? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place. 1. Throughput time 2. Manufacturing cycle efficiency 3. Non-value-added throughput time 4. Delivery cycle time 5. New manufacturing cycle efficiency 0.6 day 15.2 days 3.3 days 0.6 day 3.9 days days % % days %

Management of Mittel Company wants to reduce the elapsed time from when a customer places an order to when it is shipped. It provided the following data for a recent quarter: Inspection time. Wait time (from order to start of production) Process time Move time Queue time Required: 1. Compute the throughput time. Note: Round your answer to 1 decimal place. 2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent. 3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non-value-added activities? Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent. 4. Compute the delivery cycle time. Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place. 5. If using Lean Production eliminates all queue time, what will be the new MCE? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place. 1. Throughput time 2. Manufacturing cycle efficiency 3. Non-value-added throughput time 4. Delivery cycle time 5. New manufacturing cycle efficiency 0.6 day 15.2 days 3.3 days 0.6 day 3.9 days days % % days %

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