Essay about Circuit Board Fabricators, Inc

The assembly line needs to produce 6 units per hour and there is room for only four workstations. The tasks and the order in which they must be performed are shown in the following table. Tasks cannot be split, and it would be too expensive to duplicate any task.

Steel fabrication: this is when steel is cut to the desire length generally on site and then weld them together to create the final building. This is generally labor intensive however it can reduce time.

6. There are a few changes we can make to the process to increase efficiency. Buying another oven (of the same size) that allows you to put in 2 trays during the Load&Bake process will increase the process from 22 dozens to 30 dozens or 26.6% after four hours. Also, by having customer pay during the packing period (2 minutes), we would circumvent time wasted in the pay period (1minute).

B. 1. The impact of costs on the decision to move forward with the new Maui Sandal line is as follows: As the production continues, the hours needed for each batch, or individual pair, will begin to decrease. By continuing to produce this line the total labor costs will continue to decrease, but most likely, at a slower rate as more sandals are produced. This data can help the company decide employment levels, capacity, costs, and their pricing of this particular merchandise in the open market. The company predicts that it will take 1,000 labor hours for production to complete for the first batch, with 50 total batches between month 1 and month 4.

The first phase of our solution is concerned with improving the current situation and overcoming the shortfall in a fast and inexpensive way. According to exhibit "current situation" we can identify two bottlenecks in our current production process, "Add Paste to Cup" and "Inspect Carbon Rods". Those are below the necessary capacity of 540 units/min. To overcome this, we suggest adding one additional machine ("Add Paste to Cup") from the factory in Guarulhos to reach a overall capacity of 540 units/min and engage two more persons, one to operate the additional machine and one in the "Inspect Carbon Rods"-operation (exhibit alternative II).

Testing is when you check for faults, take measures to check quality, look at reliability and look at the

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2. What size orders would you schedule on the CNC drill? On the CNC router?

One of the biggest needs for improvement was the assembly process. Although several changes were made throughout the years, quality and efficiency still fell below expectations. Hinrichs implemented the newly developed assembly which consists of two separate work stations that allowed operators in the adjacent stations to share the expensive balancer machine. These assembly cells were much more efficient as workers were no longer forced to wait for another person or machine in the process. Each cell was built like the other with quick turn set-up which created flexibility in the process while also reducing tooling inventory by almost a half. Now cells

The pieces to work stations or to operator in the production line or line segment is 2000 to 15 or 400 to 3 based on 15 direct labor employees. (See question 2)

In-process inspection and test to determine the status of the process (rather than for product acceptance). .

In that time he can create (with the table saw): 14040 minutes available /15 minutes required per board = 936 planks

The process engineer suggests that you find the most labor-intensive operation that the plant performs. Reduce costs by automating the operation.

The fabrication of a mold takes two to four weeks, depending on the amount of work the machinist already has scheduled, even though the fabrication process itself takes only three to five days. There are 13 master machinists in the company, and it is always the same machinist who was assigned to the design team. This means an unequal amount of work is distributed among the machinists. The estimated time for this step can be further shortened if the use of resources can be managed effectively.

Boeing made use of lean techniques in their production system and increased its production by 50% and also reduced its floor space by 40%. Assembling a Boeing 737 is a typical job. Workers should take 367,000 parts, an same number of bolts, rivets, other equipment and 36 miles (58 kilometres) of electrical wire and then keep them all combined to make an airplane [2]. Engineers to machinists were involved in lean (reducing waste) in the factory. By creating an assembly line, aircraft will pass through the workers were they going to concentrate on assembling. Allocating all employees in the factory building and organising special teams helped a lot to solve the errors in the assembly line [2]. In the assembly line, there are eight beacon lights which reflect the production status. If everything is good it shows green colour. If an error occurs, the worker will press a button and the green light will changes to yellow and the panel board will shows the category of the problem(which category it is related to). The worker will pass on to a computer and writes about the problem in a brief manner and the problem should be assigned to special team to solve it within 30 minutes if not, the light turns to purple and the assembly line will shuts down. This moving assembly is the icon of factory’s lean strategies.