A sandwich manufacturing firm makes sandwich platters with 20 pieces per platter. Each platter takes 30 minutes

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A sandwich manufacturing firm makes sandwich platters with 20 pieces per platter. Each platter takes 30 minutes to prepare and pack. After 12 platters, the surface is cleaned and sanitized, which requires a 1-hour changeover. The company operates 7.5 hour shifts, 3 shifts per day, 220 days per year. If the firm manufactures 7000 platters per year, what is its capacity cushion?

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Operations Management Processes And Supply Chains

ISBN: 9781292409863

13th Global Edition

Authors: Lee Krajewski, Naresh Malhotra, Larry Ritzman

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