A furniture manufacturer is planning to produce two new products: a wooden chair

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A furniture manufacturer is planning to produce two new products: a wooden chair and a wooden table The standard labor hours for these are 1.0 and 2.0 hours, respectively These products are made m two work centers, wood cutting and assembly, where the expected average percentage of work is 40 percent for wood cutting and 60 percent for assembly Given the following schedule for next 10 periods, calculate the labor hours needed in each of the two work centers: Why should buffers be located in front of bottleneck work centers under TOC scheduling? How should the size of these buffers be determined?

Explanation / Answer

The furniture manufactures makes two types of products wooden chair and wooden table, The required labour hours are 1 hour and 2 hours respectively.

The labours off Chair (1 hour) are multiplied with demand and Labour hours of Table ( 2 Hrs) are multiplied with demand.

The calculations is shown below.

Hours Labour Hours Required for Wooden Chair (Hours) 1 Labour Hours Required for Wooden Tables (Hours) 2 Period Chair (Demand) Table (Demand) Labour hours Chair Labour Hours Table 1 146 142 146 284 2 131 158 131 316 3 124 155 124 310 4 140 97 140 194 5 127 75 127 150 6 160 100 160 200 7 126 81 126 162 8 133 94 133 188 9 131 92 131 184 10 136 154 136 308

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