Continuous Flow vs. Departmental Flow Manufacturing Anderson Company has the fol

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Continuous Flow vs. Departmental Flow Manufacturing

Anderson Company has the following departmental manufacturing structure for one of its products:

3. What if the processing times of molding, welding, and assembly are all reduced to six minutes each? What is the production rate now?
units per hour

How long will it take to produce a batch of 20 units?
minutes

7.5 minutes 15 minutes Wait time = 15 min. Move and wait time = 18 min. Molding Welding Move and wait time = 22.5 min. 12 minutes 7 minutes Move and wait time = 19.5 min. Polishing Assembly

Explanation / Answer

If the production time of molding, welding, and assembly are reduced to 6 minutes each and polishing time is 12 min then per unit processing time = 3*6min + 12 min =30 min

Units per hour = 60/30 min = 2 units per hour

Time required to produce 20 units = 20units * 30 min

=600 min i.e., 600/60 = 10 hrs

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