Management of a T-shirt manufacturer believes if the company applies lean principles, then cycle efficiency can be
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Management of a T-shirt manufacturer believes if the company applies lean principles, then cycle efficiency can be improved. The following are estimated completion times for different activities in the manufacturing process.
Activity | Traditional | Lean | ||
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Cutting and sewing processing | 23 | minutes | 23 | minutes |
Wait time before moving to ironing | 9 | minutes | 6 | minutes |
Moving shirts to ironing | 11 | minutes | 7 | minutes |
Ironing shirts | 11 | minutes | 11 | minutes |
Wait time before moving to packaging | 6 | minutes | 5 | minutes |
Moving shirts to packaging | 4 | minutes | 3 | minutes |
Packaging shirts | 13 | minutes | 13 | minutes |
Quality inspection | 15 | minutes | 7 | minutes |
Compute cycle efficiency for the (a) traditional approach and (b) lean approach.
Note: Round your answers to 2 decimal places.
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