Q2. Process Analysis and Process Design (A) The new computer controlled NCX machine has replaced 3 older machines. Before the replacement, each part required two minutes of processing on the first machine, then eight minutes of processing on the second machine, and finally four minutes on the third. (Each of these machines had a dedicated operator.) The new NCX-10 machine can do all 3 steps in 10 minutes per part. As a result of the introduction of the NCX-10: a. flow time for this process has: (0) increased decreased (iii) not changed b. capacity rate for this process has: (0) increased decreased (iii) not changed (B) Using the Assembly-Line Balancing procedure, which of the following is the Theoretical Minimum Number of Workstations if the task times for the eight tasks that make up the job are 7, 4, 7, 8, 9, 4, 3 and 6 minutes, and the cycle time is 8 minutes? (a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 8 (e) None of the above (C) A firm with four departments has the load matrix shown in the Table 1 and the current layout shown in Figure 1. Note the horizontal and vertical lines all have a length of 5 (i) Assign tasks A, C, and D to the locations using the Block Layout Design rules. Note: we assume that rectilinear distance is used here. Each line has a distance of 5. D From/To A B B 10 10 20 5 Figure 1: Current Layout (ii) Calculate the LD-score for your configuration