4) Capacity Requirements Planning   Abe is typically scheduled to operate 4 machines at his workstation for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. During every 8 hours of scheduled work, Abe takes 45 minutes of break. He must perform 20 minutes of maintenance on each machine (separately) during every 8 hours of scheduled work. Abe is unable process work while he is performing maintenance.   Abe’s company is making some changes to the maintenance schedule. The changes will result in a new weekly capacity of 6000 minutes when Abe is scheduled for a 40-hour work week.     If efficiency remains at 90%, what is the new workstation utilization?

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4) Capacity Requirements Planning

 

Abe is typically scheduled to operate 4 machines at his workstation for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. During every 8 hours of scheduled work, Abe takes 45 minutes of break. He must perform 20 minutes of maintenance on each machine (separately) during every 8 hours of scheduled work. Abe is unable process work while he is performing maintenance.

 

Abe’s company is making some changes to the maintenance schedule. The changes will result in a new weekly capacity of 6000 minutes when Abe is scheduled for a 40-hour work week.

 

 

  1. If efficiency remains at 90%, what is the new workstation utilization?
  2. Abe earns $20/hr up to 40 hours/week and then earns $30/hr for each hour beyond 40 hours (overtime pay). If Abe is scheduled to complete the entire week’s work himself, how much will he be paid given the new workstation utilization? Note: the capacity will change. Use the new utilization you found in part 1.
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