Question: ( 3 0 points ) A punch press takes in coils of sheet metal and can make five different electrical breaker boxes, denoted by B

(30 points) A punch press takes in coils of sheet metal and can make five different electrical breaker boxes, denoted by B1, B2, B3, B4, and B5. Each box takes exactly 1 minute to produce. To switch the process from one type of box to another takes 4 hours. There is demand of 1,800,1,000,600,350, and 200 units per month for boxes B1, B2, B3, B4, and B5, respectively. The plant works one shift, 5 days per week. After lunch, breaks, and so on, there is 7 hours available per shift. Assume 52 weeks per year.
(a) What is ra in boxes per hour?
(b) What would utilization be if there were no setups? (Note that utilization will approach this as batch sizes approach infinity.)
(c) Suppose the SCV of the press is 0.2 no matter what the batch sizes are. What is the average cycle time when the batch sizes are all equal to 1,000(assume ca2=1)?
(d) Use trial and error to find a set of batch sizes that minimizes cycle time.
( 3 0 points ) A punch press takes in coils of

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