1. A recurring problem for most businesses today is efficiency. As resources come with a huge downfall for the last turn of the century, more and more organization is looking into making operation lean. Although facilities are reluctant to pin point the exact cause of non maximization, upper management look at idle time as their first clue and starting point in fixing the stated problem. A pencil manufacturing facility in new york street, cubao recently experienced a catastrophic crashed on their monthly sales. As per initial study, great numbers of millennial is no longer using pencil and instead favor using computers and gadgets to write. Due to heavy correlation on downward sales, management was force to call on reducing cost. The concurrent operations manager was keen to solve the problem ahead because he knows for sure that his effort will save the company as a whole. With a goal in mind, he observe all the station which consumes operation time and goes apple to apple comparison with the known cycle time of 4.6 minutes. From the table below determine the percentage of idle time. STATION STATION TIME 2.3 1.68 N | | | 0 6 3.6 24% b. 35% c. 45% d. 54% e. 40%