Question: 2. A company runs three items on the same machine. Demand and processing time for the three items are given in the following table. Setup

2. A company runs three items on the same machine. Demand and processing time for the three items are given in the following table. Setup time to change from pro- duction of any item to any other is 16 minutes. The machine is available for 420 minutes a day. The company wishes to start each day with the same item and run the same sequence each day (i.e., the number of setups each day will equal the number of lots to be run). Determine the lot sizes to run if the setup time is allocated evenly to each item.

ITEM PROCESSING TIME/UNIT (SECONDS) AVERAGE DEMAND (UNITS/DAY) RST 10 900 6 450

ITEM PROCESSING TIME/UNIT (SECONDS) AVERAGE DEMAND (UNITS/DAY) RST 10 900 6 450 15 200

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