Evaluation $1-$ Value Stream Mapping Consider the following:

ACME Incorporated, a ball bearing manufacturing company located in Guclph, Ontario, recehes raw material sheets from XYZ Steel Company once a week every Monday for a product family of retainers $($casings in which ball bearings are held$),$ and then ships its finished product on a daily basis to a second. tier automotive manufacturing customer named ADC Enterprises.

The product family of the bearing manufacturing compsny under consideration consists of two types of retainers $-$ large $(4)$ and small $(5)-$ that are packaged for shipping in returnable trays with $60$ retainers in each tray.

The manufacturing process consists of a cell containing pressing coeration, a piercing and forming cell, and a finish gind aperation, after which the two types of retainers are staged for shipping:

The information collected by the operations manager at ACME inc, is shown in Table below. OPERATIONS DATA FOR A FANUYY OF RETAINERS AT ACME