Question 1 (5 points) D Along an automobile assembly line, wheels are installed

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Question 1 (5 points) D Along an automobile assembly line, wheels are installed at a sinele location but each side of the car is considered a separate work sta lug nuts and both wheels are installed by a single operator. Lug nuts are supplied to the workstation in buckets of 160 items and the reorder time for an empty bucket is 3 hours. The line produces 350 cars per day. Management has specified that the policy variable will be zero and the inefficiency in the system will be accounted for by 1 extra container per side. tion for inventory purposes. Each wheel requires 5 orkstation.

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Conceptual Understanding:

In an Assembly line in the Automobile industry, JIT lug nuts are to be kept in the Container each side of the car for the assembling lug nuts onto each wheel. Management has specified the policy variable will be zero and the efficiency in the system will be conducted by 1 extra container per side.

Analsysis:

Requires car per day is 350 nos.

Requires lug nuts per wheel are 5 nos.

Each side two wheels.

No. of lug nuts per car per side - 5*2 = 10 nos.

For 350 cars, no. of lug nuts per car per side - 10 * 350 = 3500

Each side, we need to keep 3500 JIT lug nuts in the Container.

But Lug nuts were already supplied to the workstation is 160 nos.

Balance JIT lug nuts are to be ordered within 3 hours = 3500-160=3340 nos.

Conclustion Report:

Each side of the this workstation, 1670 nos of JIT lug nuts are to be kept and needed ordering within 3 hours.

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