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Oakwood Company produces maple bookcases to customer order. The following inform

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Question

Oakwood Company produces maple bookcases to customer order. The following information is available for the production of the bookcases.


Required:
1. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle time.
2. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle efficiency.
3. Management believes it can reduce move time by 1.10 days and wait time by 2.50 days by adopting lean manufacturing techniques. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle efficiency assuming the company’s predictions are correct.

Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle time. (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle efficiency. (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

Management believes it can reduce move time by 1.10 days and wait time by 2.50 days by adopting lean manufacturing techniques. Compute the company’s manufacturing cycle efficiency assuming the company’s predictions are correct. (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

Process time 14.0 days Inspection time 1.6 days Move time 4.0 days Wait time 10.0 days

Explanation / Answer

1. Manufacturing cycle time = Process time + Inspection time + Move time + Wait time = 14.0 days + 1.6 days + 4.0 days + 10.0 days = 29.6 days

2. Manufacturing cycle efficiency = Process time / Manufacturing cycle time = 14.0 / 29.6 = 0.5

3. Manufacturing cycle efficiency = Process time / Manufacturing cycle time = 14.0 / 26.0 = 0.5