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There is a canteen setup serving food (Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks-tea and Dinner) to 500 students in a B school. It has a huge well-furnished dining hall and has a serving zone where students queue to pick up their eatables. The Institute director, during his regular gemba walks in the canteen, has seen a lot of inefficiency in the related operational processes and needs a major improvement.
(a)Provide one relatable and relevant example of five of the eight wastes under Lean systems which are likely to be witnessed in the canteen.
(b)Recommend lean tools & techniques / system solutions to be employed for curbing each of those five wastes with a line on justification.
(c) Suggest three key enablers and measures to track the progress on lean in the canteen.
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- There is a canteen set up serving food (Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks-tea, and Dinner) to 500 students in a B school. It has a huge well-furnished dining hall and has a serving zone where students queue to pick up their eatables. The Institute director, during his regular Gemba walks in the canteen, has seen a lot of inefficiency in the related operational processes and needs a major improvement. (a)Provide one relatable and relevant example of five of the eight wastes under Lean systems which are likely to be witnessed in the canteen. (b)Recommend lean tools & techniques/system solutions to be employed for curbing each of those five wastes with a line on justification. (c) Suggest three key enablers and measures track the progress on lean in the canteen.Vikiki Furniture, Inc. produces all types of office furniture. The "Executive Secretary" is a sofa-bed that has been designed using ergonomics to provide comfort during long work hours. The sofa-bed sells for $138. There are 580 minutes available during the day, and the average daily demand has been 65 items. There are eight tasks: Task performance time (min) task must follow task listed A 4 -- B 7 -- C 6 A, B D 5 C E 6 D F 7 E G 8 E H 6 F, G Total 49 min What is the Cycle time for this operation?The three-station work cell illustrated in the figure below has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2. a) The bottleneck time of the system isminutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number). b) is the bottleneck station. c) The throughput time isminutes (enter your response as a whole number). d) If the firm operates 9 hours per day, 5 days per week, the weekly capacity of this work cell is units (enter your response as a whole number).
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- If the firm operates 10 hours per day, 5 days per week, what is the weekly capacity of this work cell?Use excel to show formulas 1. A company is designing a product layout for a new product. They plan to use this production line 16 hours a day in order to meet forecasted demand of 1200 units per day. For output to equal forecasted demand, what should be the actual cycle time for this production?Georgetown Pizza makes its favorite pan pizzas every day with three working shifts around the clock. The current completely cooked pizza-making process has a fixed cost of $24,000, and a variable cost of $2.75 per pizza. The owner is considering a different process that can make pizzas in two ways: completely cooked and selling at $13.98 per unit, or partially cooked with a selling price of $12.98 per unit. This alternate process has a fixed cost of $28,000, but a lower variable cost (because much less energy is used in baking) of $2.25 per pizza. a. Determine the breakeven quantity between the current pizza-making process and the alternate process.
- Why there is so much fuss about adopting the big picture approach to capacity planning in business operations.Please Answer My Question Operations Management 4 A,B, because I Know The Tutor Can Answer max 3 Sub Parts... Because Every Sub Part Of The Problem Is Related To Each Other....Thank U and No RejectIn an essay, suppose you are opening up an an Applesbee's restaurant. describe the capacity analysis of the process, including the strategies used to adress expected customer demand