Manufacturing Productivity Measures. Alvarez Biological Enterprises is a company located in San Jose, Costa Rica, that produces
Question:
Manufacturing Productivity Measures. Alvarez Biological Enterprises is a company located in San Jose, Costa Rica, that produces various blood products for use by hospitals throughout Central America. According to the operations manager, Ricardo Odio, the process for producing a blood coagulant used for treating hemophiliacs is as follows:
A typical batch of plasma transported to the fractionation plant weighs 80 kilograms. Of this, about half results in cryoprecipitate; the other half-a liquid residue-is transformed into other blood products. When the cryoprecipitate is inspected, about two kilograms are typically sent back to the beginning of the centrifugation procedure.
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1. Classify the preceding activities into the five categories of throughput time.
2. Compute the manufacturing (processing) cycle efficiency for the entire process.
3. Compute the first-pass yield for the cryoprecipitate.
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Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 9780538842822
9th Edition
Authors: Harold M. Sollenberger, Arnold Schneider, Lane K. Anderson