QUESTION 2 (10 Marks) The Goode and Cooke Company produces several models of frying pans. There is little difference in the production time required for the various models; the plant is designed to produce 160 frying pans per eight-hour shift, and there are two shifts per working day. However, the plant does not operate for the full eight hours: the employees take two 12-minute breaks in each shift, one in the first four hours and one in the second four hours; two hours per week are devoted to cleaning the factory and performing maintenance on the machines; one four-hour period every four weeks is devoted to the meeting of the quality circle. The plant usually produces about 3,500 frying pans per four-week period. You may ignore holidays in solving this problem. Answer the following questions by adjusting the data to a four-week time period. a) What is the design capacity in frying pans? (1 marks) b) What is the effective capacity in frying pans? As a percent? (2 marks) c) What is the actual output? (1 marks) d) What is the efficiency? (2 marks) e) What is the utilization? (2 marks) f) Re-work the problem using a time period of one eight-hour shift (2 marks)
QUESTION 2 (10 Marks) The Goode and Cooke Company produces several models of frying pans. There is little difference in the production time required for the various models; the plant is designed to produce 160 frying pans per eight-hour shift, and there are two shifts per working day. However, the plant does not operate for the full eight hours: the employees take two 12-minute breaks in each shift, one in the first four hours and one in the second four hours; two hours per week are devoted to cleaning the factory and performing maintenance on the machines; one four-hour period every four weeks is devoted to the meeting of the quality circle. The plant usually produces about 3,500 frying pans per four-week period. You may ignore holidays in solving this problem. Answer the following questions by adjusting the data to a four-week time period. a) What is the design capacity in frying pans? (1 marks) b) What is the effective capacity in frying pans? As a percent? (2 marks) c) What is the actual output? (1 marks) d) What is the efficiency? (2 marks) e) What is the utilization? (2 marks) f) Re-work the problem using a time period of one eight-hour shift (2 marks)
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