Please help!!!! Problem 8 Question Help * Up, Up, and Away is a producer of kite
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Problem 8 Question Help * Up, Up, and Away is a producer of kites and wind socks. Relevant data on the bottleneck operation in the shop for the upcoming fiscal year are given in the following table Item Demand forecast Lot size Standard processing ti Standard setup time Wind Socks 15,000 unitslyear 70 units 0.8 hourlunit 4.0 hours/lot Kites 32,000 units/year 25 units 0.3 hourlunit ime The shop works two shifts per day, 8 hours per shift, 180 days per year. Currently, the company operates four machines, and desires a 25 percent capacity cushion. How many machines should be purchased to meet the upcoming year's demand without resorting to any short-term capacity solutions? The number of additional machines required is(Enter your response rounded up to the next whole number.)Explanation / Answer
8 more machines would be required.
Explaination -
currently there are 4 machines - 2 machines each shift would be used - 1 for kites and 1 for socks each shift
kites production takes 3 hours set up time
.3 hours processing time would give 43 units in a day and around 7800 units in a year.
The demand forecast for kite is 32000 which is around 4 times of the current production. Means number of machines needs to be 4 times of the current units which is 2.. means 8 machines more required.
Socks - with same calculation 78 units of sock can be produced each day with the current setup and 14000 a year. 1000 short of the demand forecast and buffer 25% would mean we can stick to the same number of machines as per the current setup.
Hence 8 more machines are required.