Week III Assignment Management Essay Research Paper

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Week III Assignment
Q1
Capacity can be defined as the ability of an individual or machine to produce output in a given time or resource. Companies need to keep track of their capacity to ensure they are attaining their maximum incomes at maximum sales and lower costs.
To get the daily capacity at Toshihro Company should consider the following data:
Time is taken to make one notebook= 2 min
Working hours= 7.5 hrs.
Daily capacity= working hours * minutes per hour
450= (7.5hrs* 60 min per hr.).
To calculate daily capacity at Toshihiro company = Total time available.
Time take per notebook
= 450 minutes
2 minutes
= 225 notebooks
Q2 Calculating the maximum capacity
= Production time per day
Total time
= 27,000 seconds
144
=226
Thus the efficiency of the assembly line when it is running at the maximum capacity level will still be the same since the difference between the daily capacity, which is 225 units, and the maximum capacity, which is 226 units, is not significant (Chase, Aquilano & Jacobs, 2018). Hence, the efficiency of the company will remain 104.8 percent.
Q3
The company line can be redesigned to operate at the target of 300 units per day without the use of overtime by following the calculation.
* No overtime but add more stations
Capacity= production time per day/ output per day
= 27,000sec/ 300 units
=90 sec
Additional units= sum of task times/ cycle time
=1.258/ 90sec
=14 workstations
Efficiency = sum task times/ actual no of work stations *workstation cycle time
= 1,258/ 14 w.s
=99.80 percent
Q4.
Toshihiro Company can look at other issues to add up the speed in the assembly line by incorporating other new work stations to work together with the existing ones (Bozarth & Handfield, 2019). Moreover, the company should add more machines to the work stations to improve efficiency and productivity, which can lead to maximum sales.
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A layout can be described as an arrangement or a plan. They are different types of designs, which include process, hybrid, product, and fixed position (Bozarth & Handfield, 2019). Moreover, operations management layouts can be described as the processes by which transformed resources are moved from one area to the other until a final product is produced. In operational management, they are three words that are used to refer...