Clients are served in a process with two resources. A worker in the first resource serves 2.4 clients per hour and a worker in the second resource serves 1.3 clients per hour. The first resource has 1 worker and the second resource has 2 workers. Demand occurs at the rate 3.2 clients per hour. Instruction: Round your answer to 1 decimal place. What is the utilization (%) of the second resource? % Chairs are made in a process with two resources. The first resource has a capacity of 6 chairs per hour. The capacity of the second resource is 8.4 chairs per hour. Demand for this process is 8.4 chairs per hour. Instruction: Round your answer to three decimal places. What is the cycle time of this process (in minutes)? minutes

In a company that processes insurance claims, the average flow is 10 claims per hour and the average throughput time is six hours. How many claims are in the system on average? If the deman for claims to be processed is seven per hour and the capacity is eight per hour, what is the flow rate?

Mr. K’s is a very popular hair salon. It offers high-quality hair styling and physical relaxation services at a reasonable price, so it always has unlimited demand. The service process includes five activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (The time required for each activity is shown in parenthesis):   Activity 1: Welcome a guest and offer homemade herb tea. (10 minutes) Activity 2: Wash and condition hair. (10 minutes) Activity 3: Neck, shoulder, and back stress release massage. (10 minutes) Activity 4: Design the hairstyle and do the hair. (25 minutes) Activity 5: Check out the guest. (5 minutes)     Three servers (S1, S2, and S3) offer the services in a worker-paced line. The assignment of tasks to servers is the following: S1 does Activity 1. S2 does Activities 2 and Activity 3. S3 does Activities 4 and Activity 5.     a) Which server is the bottleneck of the process ?                       b) What is the utilization of server 2 ?         c) What is the…

Kitty Wonderland (KW) makes toys for cats. KW’s managers have recently learned that they can calculate the average waiting time for an order from the time an order is received and the time it is manufactured. They have asked for your help and have provided the following information. Expected number of orders for the product: 2,000 Manufacturing time per order: 4 hours Annual machine capacity in hours: 10,000 After learning about the average waiting time, KW’s managers are confused. They do not understand why, if annual machine capacity is greater than the average number of orders for the product, there would be any waiting time at all. Briefly answer the following questions Calculate the average waiting time per order. The managers have asked for your suggestions on what they can do to minimize or eliminate waiting time. How would you respond? Management is expecting sales to increase. Will average waiting time increase or decrease? Explain briefly.

Four employees at a fast-food restaurant each perform one of the four activities in serving a customer: greet customer, take order, process order, and deliver order. The processing time for each activity is given as follows: Greet customer Take order Process order Deliver order A) 50% Assume demand is unlimited. What is the average labor utilization? B) 68% C) 40% Activity D) 162% Processing time per customer 2 seconds 30 seconds 60 seconds 5 seconds

C&A Candy produces two kinds of gumdrops: regular and sugar-free. The data on these gumdrops are given below: Regular Sugar-Free 30 10 60 30 80 80 Demand (lbs per hour) Changeover time (min) Production rate (lbs per hour) C&A first makes 60 pounds of regular gumdrops, then 20 pounds of sugar-free gumdrops, and then repeats this sequence. What is the utilization of the production process? Multiple Choice O O O 25% 20% 50% 40%

For a particular process, suppose the bottleneck cycle time is 40, and the raw processing time is 100. What is the minimum number of customers that must be in the system in order for the lead-time (LT) to exceed the raw processing time?  Round to one decimal place.

A process consists of 3 resources. Assume there exists unlimited demand for product, Resource 1 has processing time of 6 minutes per unit. Resource 2 has processing time of 4 minutes per unit. Resource 3 has processing time of 3 minutes per unit. All resources are staffed by 1 worker and each worker gets paid $ 12 per hour. What is the cost of direct labor ? How much idle time does worker at resource 3 have ? What is the average labor utilization ? Assume the demand rate is 20 units per hour, what is the Takt time ? Assume the demand rate is 20 units per hour, what is the Target manpower ? Show all formulas, calculations and results. Do on Canvas

Clients are served in a process with two resources. The first resource has a capacity of 14 clients per hour. The capacity of the second resource is 15 clients per hour. Demand for this process is 11 clients per hour. Instruction: Round your answer to three decimal places. What is the cycle time of this process (in minutes)? minutes

Three employees at a fast-food restaurant each perform one of the three activities in serving a customer: take the order, process the order, and deliver the order. The processing time for each activity is given as follows:   Activity Processing Time Take the order 30 seconds Process the order 2 minutes Deliver the order 1 minute   Assume that the demand is 20 customers/hour. What is the average labor utilization?   a 38.9%   b 85.7%   c 66.7%   d 100%