Operations Management

1. Redesign the process to increase capacity at least 50% without changing the tasks per station (ie, adding one or more stations rather than moving tasks around to different workstations) and calculate the new cycle time of the process and the new capacity of the process.
2. Calculate utilization by station and in total for the process.
3. Redesign the process to decrease idle time (you may use any design that maintains precedence), while still meeting the capacity increase goals of TinyHands.

TinyHands Corp makes energy tablets. Their current process for manufacturing a tin of their "High Energy" tabs is given in the table below (note that a workstation may perform more than one task). They currently operate by staffing one person per workstation, and a workstation costs $20/day to operate (in addition to the $10/hr labor costs of performing the process tasks). They operate for 8 hours a day. The tasks ABCDEF must be done one after the other, in order. TinyHands has recently seen an increase in demand of 50% and desires to increase their capacity by 50%. Workstation Task time Units (tins) processed 10 Task Task ID Take 10 tins from supply bin B Fill 10 tins with ten tabs each Place ten tins in a ten unit package D Wrap ten unit package with plastic wrap E Stamp package with logo and UPC F Load ten tin package onto distribution truck 1 1 2 10 10 60 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds 10 seconds 30 seconds 3 ww 3 10 10 10 4 TinyHands Corp makes energy tablets. Their current process for manufacturing a tin of their "High Energy" tabs is given in the table below (note that a workstation may perform more than one task). They currently operate by staffing one person per workstation, and a workstation costs $20/day to operate (in addition to the $10/hr labor costs of performing the process tasks). They operate for 8 hours a day. The tasks ABCDEF must be done one after the other, in order. TinyHands has recently seen an increase in demand of 50% and desires to increase their capacity by 50%. Workstation Task time Units (tins) processed 10 Task Task ID Take 10 tins from supply bin B Fill 10 tins with ten tabs each Place ten tins in a ten unit package D Wrap ten unit package with plastic wrap E Stamp package with logo and UPC F Load ten tin package onto distribution truck 1 1 2 10 10 60 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds 10 seconds 30 seconds 3 ww 3 10 10 10 4