Management of Mittel Rhein AG of Köln, Germany, would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an orderand when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported:Inspection timeWait time (from order to start of production)Process timeMove timeQueue timeRequired:0.6 days17.1 days3.1 days1.2 days4.5 days1. Compute the throughput time. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. (Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.)3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non-value-added activities? (Round your percentage answer to nearestwhole percent.)4. Compute the delivery cycle time. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place.)5. If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE? (Round your percentageanswer to 1 decimal place.)1. Throughput time2. Manufacturing cycle efficiencydays%3. Non-value-added throughput time4. Delivery cycle time%days5. New manufacturing cycle efficiency%

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Management of Mittel Rhein AG of Köln, Germany, would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: Inspection time Wait time (from order to start of production) Process time Move time 0.6 days 17.1 days 3.1 days 1 2 days

Management of Mittel Rhein AG of Köln, Germany, would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: Inspection time Wait time (from order to start of production) Process time Move time 0.6 days 17.1 days 3.1 days 1 2 days

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