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1. Having more work-in-process inventory can improve process efficiency by allowing data gathering to occur simultaneously with analysis. However, it increases costs and the risk of errors or delays. 2. For the original process, one person can complete 10 projects per 8-hour day, so the output is 10/8 = 1.25 projects per hour. For the new process, data gathering takes 0.33 hours and analysis takes 0.5 hours per project, so the output is 1.5 projects per hour. It would take 1,000/1.5 = 667 hours for the new process and 1,000/1.25 = 800 hours for the original. 3. The average hourly output

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Homework Ch5

1. Having more work-in-process inventory can improve process efficiency by allowing data gathering to occur simultaneously with analysis. However, it increases costs and the risk of errors or delays. 2. For the original process, one person can complete 10 projects per 8-hour day, so the output is 10/8 = 1.25 projects per hour. For the new process, data gathering takes 0.33 hours and analysis takes 0.5 hours per project, so the output is 1.5 projects per hour. It would take 1,000/1.5 = 667 hours for the new process and 1,000/1.25 = 800 hours for the original. 3. The average hourly output

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Homework - Chapter 5

1. Explain how having more work-in-process inventory can improve the efficiency of a
process? What are the disadvantages of having more work-in-process inventory?
2. A local market research firm has just won a contract for several thousand small projects
involving data gathering and statistical analysis. In the past the firm has assigned each
project to a single member of its highly trained professional staff. This person would both
gather and analyze the data. Using this approach an experienced person can complete an
average of 10 such projects in an eight-hour day. The firms management is thinking of
assigning two people to each project in order to allow them to specialize and become more
efficient. The process would require the data gatherer to fill out a matrix on the computer,
check it, and transmit it to the statistical analysis program for the analyst to complete. Data
can be gathered on one project while the analysis is being completed on another, but the
analysis must be complete before the statistical analysis program can accept the new data.
After some practice, the new process can be completed with a standard time of 20 minutes
for the data gathering and 30 minutes for the analysis.
a. What is the production (output per hour) for each alternative? What is the
productivity (output per labor hour) ?
b. How long would it take to complete 1,000 projects with each alternative? What
would be the labor content (total number of labor hours) for 1,000 projects for each
alternative?
3. A processor makes two components, A and B, which are then packaged together as the final
product (each product sold contains one A and one B). The processor can do only one
component at a time: either it can make As or it can make Bs. There is a setup time when
switching from A to B. Current plans are to make 100 units of component A, then 100 units
of component B, then 100 units of component A, then 100 units of component B, and so
forth, where the setup time and run times for each component are given below. Assume the
packing of the two components is totally automated and takes only two seconds per unit of
the final product. This packaging time is small enough that you can ignore it. What is the
average hourly output, in terms of the number of units of packaged product (which includes
one component A and one component B)?
Component
A
B

Setup/Changeover Time
5 minutes
10 minutes

Run Time/ Unit


0.2 minute
0.1 minute

4. Wallys Widget Warehouse takes orders from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The manager wants to
analyze the process and has provided the process flow diagram shown below. There are
three steps required to ship a customer order. The first step is to take the order from the
customer. The second step is to pick the order for the customer and then they have to pack
the order ready for shipping. Wally promises that every order placed today gets shipped
tomorrow. That means that the picking and packing operation mush finish all orders before
they go home.

Customers

Order
Taker

Customer
Orders

Pick
Orders

Picked
Orders
Picked
Orders

Pack
Orders

100 Customers/

80 Customers/

60 Customers/

hour

hour

hour

Wally wants to figure out the following.


a. What is the current maximum output of the process?
b. How long will the picking and packing operations have to work if we have a day with
the maximum orders?
c. What is the maximum number of orders waiting to be picked?
d. What is the maximum number of orders waiting to by packed?
e. If we double the packing capacity (from 60 to 120 orders per hour), what impact does
this have on your answers in parts b, c, and d?

Wait for
Shipper

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