Orion Manufacturing Inc., a fictional company, has scheduled production of the following three of its products for

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Orion Manufacturing Inc., a fictional company, has scheduled production of the following three of its products for the 4 weeks of January as shown in the following table:

week Product 1 3 4 160 70 120 200 25 35 55 75 30 20 70 90


The two key work centers for producing these three products are fabrication and assembly. The fabrication work station has capacity efficiency and utilization rates of 90% and 95%. The efficiency and utilization rates of the assembly work station are 94% and 90%. The standard hours per unit of time required for the three products in each of the two work centers are given in the following table:

Orion Manufacturing Inc., a fictional company, has scheduled production of


If each work center is available for 8 hours, 5 days a week, determine the work load per week in each work center in January.

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Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains

ISBN: 978-1506302935

1st edition

Authors: Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto

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