Kinga Doll Company manufactures eight versions of its popular girl doll, Shari.
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Kinga Doll Company manufactures eight versions of its popular girl doll, Shari. The company operates on a 40-hour work week. The eight versions differ in doll skin, hair, and eye color, enabling most children to have a doll with a similar appearance to them It currently sells an average of 3750 dolls (spread equally among its eight versions) per week to boutique toy retailers. In simplified terms, doll making at Kinga involves three basic operations: molding the body and hair, painting the face, and dressing the doll. Changing over between versions requires setup time at the molding and painting stations due to the different colors of plastic pellets, hair, and eye color paint required. Table 7.5 lists the setup times for a batch and the activity times for each unit at each step Molding Painting Dressing Process Step Setup time (min 13 Processing time (min) 0.26 29 No setup 0.18 0.27 (Round your answer to nearest integer.) a. What is the process capacity in dolls per hour with a batch size of 525 dolls? dolls per hour (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. What is the utilization of molding in dolls per hour with a batch size of 800 dolls? (Round your answer to nearest integer.) c. Which batch size would minimize inventory without decreasing the process capacity? dolls per batch (Round your answer to nearest integer.) d. Which batch size would minimize inventory without decreasing the flow rate? dolls per batchExplanation / Answer
ANSWER:
a. The process capacity in dolls per hour with a batch size of 525 dolls is 85 dolls per hour.
b. The utilization of molding in dolls per hour with a batch size of 800 dolls is 28.875%
c. The batch size with minimize the inventory without decreasing the process capacity is 680 dolls per batch
d. The batch size which would minimize inventory without decreasing the flow rate is 680 dolls per batch. ( same as above). The reason is flow rate and max. process capacity both are same.
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