A fabrication cell at Spradley's Sprockets uses the pull method to supply gears to an assembly line. George Jitson is in charge of the assembly line, which requires 641 gears per day. Containers typically wait 1.5 day in the fabrication cell. Each container holds 50 gears, and one container requires 0.9 day in machine time. Setup times are negligible. If the policy variable for unforeseen contingencies is set at 0.02, how many containers should Jitson authorize for the gear replenishment system? Jitson should authorize containers. (Enter your response rounded up to the next whole number.) The Harvey Motorcycle Company produces three models: the Tiger, a sure-footed dirt bike; the LX2000, a nimble cafe racer; and the Golden, a large interstate tourer. The month's master production schedule calls for the production of 32 Goldens, 31 LX2000s, and 22 Tigers per 8-hour shift. What average cycle time is required for the assembly line to achieve the production quota in 8 hours? hours per motorcycle. (Enter your response rounded to three decimal places.) Gestalt, Inc. uses a kanban system in its automobile production facility in Germany. This facility operates 8 hours per day to produce the Jitterbug, a replacement for the obsolete but immensely popular Jitney Beetle. Suppose that a certain part requires 150 seconds of processing at machine cell 33B and an average container of parts averages 1.6 hours of waiting time there. Management has allowed a 10 percent buffer for unexpected occurrences. Each container holds 30 parts, and 8 containers are authorized. How much daily demand can be satisfied with this system? (Hint: Recall that p is the average processing time per container, not per individual part.) The average processing time per container of parts, p, is day. (Enter your response rounded to three decimal places.)