Barker Company has the following departmental manufacturing structure for one of its products:

Required:
1. Calculate the total time it takes to produce a batch of 20 units using Barker’s traditional departmental structure.
2. Using cellular manufacturing, how much time is saved producing the same batch of 20 units? Assuming the cell operates continuously, what is the production rate?
Which process controls this production rate?
3. What if the processing times of molding, welding, and assembly are all reduced to four minutes each? What is the production rate now, and how long will it take to produce a batch of 20 units?LO1

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Wait time = 10 min. 5 minutes Move and Wait time - 12 min. 10 minutes Molding Welding Move and Wait time = 15 min. 8 minutes 7 minutes Move and Wait time - 13 min. Polishing Assembly After some study, the production manager of Barker recommended the following revised cellular manufacturing approach: