Tonys Restaurant is a company that manufactures two types of cooking pans. The forecasted amount of demand for next year for each pan as well as the production requirements are given below. Tony likes to maintain a capacity cushion of 20.6 %. Pan 1 Pan 2 Forecast of demand (qty) 55370 38000 Processing time (hours) 0.1 0.08 Average lot (batch) size 100 100 Setup time (hours) 2 1.5 The pans are produced on a large press machine. A press machine can be configured (setup) to produce either of the two pans. Assume her factory works for 250 days in a year, and there is only one 8-hr shift per working day. How many machines does Aunt Karen need to fulfill demand next year (enter your answer rounded to 2 decimal places)?

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Tonys Restaurant is a company that manufactures two types of cooking pans. The forecasted amount of demand for next year for each pan as well as the production requirements are given below. Tony likes to maintain a capacity cushion of 20.6 %. 

 

  Pan 1 Pan 2
Forecast of demand (qty) 55370 38000
Processing time (hours) 0.1 0.08
Average lot (batch) size 100 100
Setup time (hours) 2 1.5

 

The pans are produced on a large press machine. A press machine can be configured (setup) to produce either of the two pans. Assume her factory works for 250 days in a year, and there is only one 8-hr shift per working day. 

How many machines does Aunt Karen need to fulfill demand next year (enter your answer rounded to 2 decimal places)? 

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Pan 1
Pan 2
Forecast of demand 
55370
38000
Processing time 
0.1
0.08
Average lot size
100
100
Setup time
2
1.5
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