A customer has placed an order for 30,000 first-aid kits that must be delivered within 20 business days. The kits are to be assembled on the four-workstation line shown below and in kanban quantities equal to 1 hour of demand. The workstations are manned a total of 7.5 hours per day.
a. What is the overall line utilization?
b. What is the bottleneck operation?
c. How many kits must be started at workstation A each hour in order to deliver the required quantities from workstation D? What is the overall process yield for the line?
d. What is the takt time for this customer's order?