The Standard Herald Motor Company is a fictional producer of three types of vehicles/cars in a single

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The Standard Herald Motor Company is a fictional producer of three types of vehicles/cars in a single assembly line: the sedan (S), the hatchback (H), and the SUV (V). The plant manager at Standard Herald wants to implement uniform production and mixed-model scheduling. The company has orders for 800 sedans, 500 hatchbacks, and 300 SUVs next month. The plant operates 25 days per month and has the capacity to produce 200 vehicles per day:

1. If a mixed-model production schedule is used, what assembly sequence would the plant manager use?

2. How many times per day would the assembly sequence be repeated?

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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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