Lady Bug Machineries uses a lean production assembly line to make its generators

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Lady Bug Machineries uses a lean production assembly line to make its generators. In one assembly area, the demand is 200 parts per 8-hour day. It uses a container that holds 10 parts. It typically takes about 5 hours to round-trip a container from one work center to the next and back again. They also desire to hold a 20% safety stock of this part in the system.

If the container size were 15 and there were 10 containers, what would be the new required round-trip time, all else being constant?

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When Container size is increased to 15 and 10 container:

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