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Purple Swit manufactures birahouses in lots of 10. Each birdhouse takes 45 minutes to paint. Atter 10 birdhouses are painted, the company switches paint color which requires a two hoars changecver. Assume that the company should changeover at the very beginning of the process. The company works 8 hours per shift, one shift per day, 220 days per year Currently the compary has one point booth. What is Purple Swifts paint capacity cushion if it bullds 1,500 birchouses per yoar? Purple swits paint capacity cushion is 4. (Entor your response rounded to one decimal place) he shop curtently works 8 hours a day. 5 days a week 52 weeks a year. it operates five workstations, each producing one Eicyole in the tme shown in the table, The shop maintains a 15 percent sacity custion. How many workstabions wili be tequired noxt year to meet expected demand without using overime and without decreasing the firm's current capacily cushion? e number of wanktations required next year is (Enter your response rounded up to the next whole numbec) Macon Controls produces three dierent bypes of control units used to protect industrial equipmont from overteating. Each of these units must be processed by a machine that Macon considers to be their process bottleneck. The plant operates on two Bhour shits, 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year. The table below provides the time standards at the botlleneck, lot sizes, and demand forecasts for the three uniss. Becaust of demand uncertanties, the operations manager obtained three domand forecasts (pessimiste, expected, and optimistic). The manager beleves that a 25 pereont capaciy custion is best The Solomon, Smth, and Samson law firm produces many legal documects that must be word processed for clients and the firm. Requnsts average 8 pages of documents per hour, and they arfive atcording to a Poisson disthbuton. The secretary can word process 11 pages per hour on average according to an exponential distribution a. The average utilzation rate of the secretary is S utlizaten. (Enter yeur response as a percentage rounded to the nearest whole number)