Question: Dan's Danimal Palace needs a capacity plan for their critical operations. They manufacture three products: hammocks, cages and gift baskets. Each of these products uses

Dan's Danimal Palace needs a capacity plan for their critical operations. They manufacture three products: hammocks, cages and gift baskets. Each of these products uses a common machine in their production process. Below is a table of relevant information for each product.
\table[[Product,\table[[Annual],[Demand]],\table[[Processing],[Time],[(seconds)]],\table[[Set-up],[Time],[(seconds)]],Lot size],[\table[[Cat],[Hammocks]],367,143,86,95,301],[Cat cages,153,301,133,102,742],[\table[[Gift],[Baskets],[(for cats)]],174,896,86,178,106]]
Dan's Danimal Palace operates two 8-hours shifts, 7 days a week, 48 weeks per year (a total of 19,353,600 seconds over the year). Dan has determined a capacity cushion of 6% is sufficient. How many machines does Dan need to have to meet the company's processing needs?
 Dan's Danimal Palace needs a capacity plan for their critical operations.

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