The lean operations system strategy has been in operation for $3$ months at Your Furniture Company. Recently, operations managers have received complaints from the company$$s distribution division that customer orders for dining room tables are delayed due to a backup in the production assembly area. The assembly team consists of $30$ members, with each member assembling a table from start to finish from the cut pieces provided through upstream production.

The operations management team decides to do the following:

Analyze a method to understand how the assembly job is being executed

Apply a work measurement to determine a standard for how long the assembly job should take to execute; this standard time will be used by the operations management team to determine if changes are needed to the current capacity planning for the assembly portion of the production line