Carlos Gonzales is production manager at an assembly plant that manufactures cor

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Carlos Gonzales is production manager at an assembly plant that manufactures cordless telephones. The company is planning to install a pull system. The process is being planned to have a usage rate of fifty pieces per hour. Each container is designed to hold ten pieces. It takes an average of thirty minutes to complete a cycle. (a) How many containers will be needed? containers (Round your answer to 1 decimal place, the tolerance is +/-0.1.) (b) How will the number of needed containers change as the system improves? As cycle time decreases, number of containers needed decreasesincreases.

Explanation / Answer

50 *1/2 / 10 = 2.5

# of containers needed will DECREASE

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