A Plant Manager who has worked for a manufacturing facility for 32 years operate

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A Plant Manager who has worked for a manufacturing facility for 32 years operates the plant as follows:

Two eight (8) hour shifts per day

Two 10-minute breaks per shift

10 minute clean-up allowed each shift

Unpaid 30 minute lunch

10,000 pieces of inventory

95,000 packages are shipped 20 days per month

2 day lead time for all material

5 minute clean up before lunch

5 minute lag after Lunch

15 minute meeting at start of each shift

Help this Plant manager to figure out “What is the Takt time for this facility”?

Explanation / Answer

Takt time=(2*8 hours)-(2*20 minutes)-(2*10 minutes)-30 minutes-(2*15 minutes)

             =16 hours-120 minutes

             =16 hours-2 hours=14 hours/day

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