Kinga Doll Company manufactures eight versions of its popular girl doll, Shari. The company operates on...

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Kinga Doll Company manufactures eight versions of its popular girl doll, Shari. The company operates on a 40-hour work week. The eight versions differ in doll skin, hair, and eye color, enabling most children to have a doll with a similar appearance to them. It currently sells an average of 4,250 dolls (spread equally among its eight versions) per week to boutique toy retailers. In simplified terms, doll making at Kinga involves three basic operations: molding the body and hair, painting the face, and dressing the doll. Changing over between versions requires setup time at the molding and painting stations due to the different colors of plastic pellets, hair, and eye color paint required. The following table lists the setup and processing times for a batch and the activity times for each unit at each step. Process Step Molding Painting Dressing Setup time (minute) 15.00 31.00 No setup Processing time (minute) 0.29 0.15 0.33 a. Calculate the process capacity? Assume batch size is 400 units. b. What is the flow rate of the process? Assume batch size is 400 units. c. Which batch size would minimize inventory without decreasing the current flow rate of the process? Kinga Doll Company manufactures eight versions of its popular girl doll, Shari. The company operates on a 40-hour work week. The eight versions differ in doll skin, hair, and eye color, enabling most children to have a doll with a similar appearance to them. It currently sells an average of 4,250 dolls (spread equally among its eight versions) per week to boutique toy retailers. In simplified terms, doll making at Kinga involves three basic operations: molding the body and hair, painting the face, and dressing the doll. Changing over between versions requires setup time at the molding and painting stations due to the different colors of plastic pellets, hair, and eye color paint required. The following table lists the setup and processing times for a batch and the activity times for each unit at each step. Process Step Molding Painting Dressing Setup time (minute) 15.00 31.00 No setup Processing time (minute) 0.29 0.15 0.33 a. Calculate the process capacity? Assume batch size is 400 units. b. What is the flow rate of the process? Assume batch size is 400 units. c. Which batch size would minimize inventory without decreasing the current flow rate of the process?