Question: Electronics Assembly Inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. Currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements
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Electronics Assembly Inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. Currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global OEM. The company would assemble three models of cell phones. Processing time is listed in the table along with the forecast demand for each model. Setup time between the phones is negligible. How much capacity in minutes is needed to produce all of the phones in the forecast?
Cell Phone Demand Forecast (phones/year) Processing Time (min/phone) Mars 3050 20 Saturn 4150 25 Neptune 3100 15
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Big Tom's Ice Cream makes three flavors. Tom's is considering a contract with a new customer. However, management knows that such a big contract will require the addition of a new production line, maybe more than one new line! Below you can see the projected demand from the new customer per week, as well as the processing time for each flavor. (For example 5 means that the line can produce a ton of ice cream every 5 minutes once the line is up and running) You can also see the batch size (or lot size) for each flavor and the set-up time for each flavor. Vanilla has he longest set-up time because of the extensive cleaning that needs to be done before running vanilla on the line. How many minutes of total capacity (processing time plus set up time) will be needed to produce all the ice cream in the demand forecast?
Flavor Demand Forecast (tons/week) Processing Time (min/ton) Lot Size (# of tons Setup Time (min/setup) Choc 2,850 5 50 50 Cherry 640 10 40 10 Vanilla 380 15 32 120
Electronics Assembly Inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. Currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global OEM. The company would assemble three models of cell phones. Processing time is listed in the table along with the forecast demand for each model. Setup time between the phones is negligible. How much capacity in minutes is needed to produce all of the phones in the forecast?
| Cell Phone | Demand Forecast (phones/year) | Processing Time (min/phone) |
| Mars | 3050 | 20 |
| Saturn | 4150 | 25 |
| Neptune | 3100 | 15 |
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