Amy Xia s plant produces four different types of photo frames and this was designed to
Question:
Amy Xias plant produces four different types of photo frames and this was designed to produce frames in total per day. They operate three shifts of eight hours each day.
a Their daily average production during the month was frames per day. What is the capacity utilization at this plant? point
b When they investigated their operations, they realized that material delays led to some waste of time, and they rectified the issues to ensure ontime material availability. This led to an increase in their output to units per day in the subsequent month. What is the capacity utilization now? point
c The industrial engineering team at the plant analyzed the manufacturing process and have observed during the month of March that the changeovers between different models at this plant took about mins per model changeover. They currently use a Solbridge International School of Business, BBA Section Spring standard batch size of frames per batch. Their standard processing time per frame is half a minute. What is the capacity utilization for March? points
d If they wish to achieve a target utilization rate of percent, how much reduction in changeover time is warranted assuming no changes in the standard batch size and the standard processing time. points