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    The manufacturing process for luxury leather bags is composed of 5 fully automated stations. Your group is brought in to help Rodi improve their customer response times. What is the minimum TT, i.e., if a customer requires a rush-order how fast can you deliver it?

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    The manufacturing process for luxury leather bags is composed of 5 fully automated stations. Your group is brought in to help Rodi improve their customer response times. What is the minimum TT, i.e., if a customer requires a rush-order how fast can you deliver it?

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    Review Questions Session 2

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    The manufacturing process for luxury leather bags is composed of 5 fully automated stations. Your group is brought in to help Rodi improve their customer response times. What is the minimum TT, i.e., if a customer requires a rush-order how fast can you deliver it?

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    Afourstageprocess
    Theprocessingtimesforthemachinesshowninthefourstageprocessbelowareasfollows(in
    minutes):W1:9,W2:9,M1:6,D1:5,G1:8andG2:12.

    G1
    W1

    8min
    9min

    D1
    M1

    5min
    6 min
    F1
    G2
    W2

    12min
    9min

    (a)WhatistheminimumTT,i.e.,ifacustomerrequiresarushorderhowfastcanyoudeliverit?
    (b)Whatisthehourlycapacityforeachstage?
    (c)Identifythebottleneckstageandtheprocesscapacity.
    (d)Supposeyoucanaddonlyonemachineinparallelatthebottleneckstage.Amachinewithhigher
    capacitycostsmore.Youwanttobuytheleastexpensivemachine.Whatshouldbethecycletime
    forthenewmachinesothatyouincreasetheprocesscapacityasmuchaspossible?

    LuisPoisson
    LuisPoissonisaParisbasedmanufacturerofluxuryleatherbags.Themanufacturingprocessfor
    theirnewflagshipproductiscomposedof5fullyautomatedstations,asillustratedinfigure1below.
    Thetheoreticalprocessingtimes(inminutes)forallthemachinesusedineachofthe5stationsare
    alsoreportedinthefigure.

    Figure 1: Luis Poissons manufacturing process

    1. WhatistheaverageThroughputRateoftheprocess(inunits/hour)?
    2. WhatistheMinimumThroughputTime(inminutes)?
    3. Whichstationistheprocessbottleneck?

    Eric&Old
    YouarepartoftheoperationsmanagementteamatEric&Old,amajorconsultingcompany.
    AsafirstassignmentyourgroupisbroughtintohelpRodiimprovetheircustomerresponsetimesto
    theirnewcustomersintheautomobileindustry.Rodimanufacturescomponentsforairplanesand
    motorvehicles.Untilnow,theyhavemostlyworkedinthedefensesector,wherecustomersare
    moreconcernedwithtechnologyandqualitythanwithresponsetime.Inthenewenvironment
    responsetimeandproductioncostaremuchmoreimportantandhavebecomeakeypriorityto
    them.
    Rodisproductionsystemisorganizedasamaketoorderserialproductionline.Becauseofthe
    variabilityinthetypesandquantitiesofproductsorderedbytheircustomersandbecausesetups
    areoftenrequiredbetweendifferenttypesofproductstheydonotutilizeanassemblyline.Instead
    theyproduceinbatchesthataretriggeredbycustomerorders.
    Onyourfirstvisit,themanagersexplainthatinordertocontrolcosttheyhavetriedtoincrease
    theutilizationratesofsomeoftheirequipments.Specifically,theynoticedthatoneofthe
    workstationsneartheendoftheproductionlinehadonly60%utilization.Theyfeltitmaybeoneof
    theupstreamstations(onethatiscurrentlyutilizedbymanydifferenttypesofjobs)thatis
    interferingwiththeutilizationrateofthismachine.Thisupstreamworkstation,infact,causesmany
    problemsattheirplant,oneofwhichisthatovertimeisfrequentlyscheduledonweekendsto
    reducethenumbersofjobswaitinginfronttoitforprocessing.
    Tomaximizeutilizationatthedownstreammachine,theyhavedecidedtomakesurethatjobs
    destinedfortheunderutilizeddownstreamworkstationwouldhavepriorityatthisupstream
    station.Theywouldevenbreaksetupsontheupstreammachinewhenthedownstreamworkstation
    wasindangerofrunningoutofwork.
    Asaconsultantwhatdoyoutellthemabouttheircurrentresponsetotheproblemsfaced?Whatis
    theimpactofthenewpolicyonthedownstreamutilizationrate?Whatistheimpactonthe
    upstreamutilizationrate?

    Itwillimprovethesituation Itwillhavenoeffect
    Itwillworsenthesituation

    Why?

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