An air compressor assembly department has four employees who each work 40 hours a week. The processing

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An air compressor assembly department has four employees who each work 40 hours a week. The processing time for assembling an air compressor is 3 hours. Given the information provided in the following table:

1. Determine the available capacity and develop a load profile for the air compressor assembly.

2. As a capacity planner, what problems related to capacity do you see and what are your recommendations to solve the problems?

5 6 7 8 55 70 Week 3 4 Planned order 30 80 45 70 60 50 70 releases Processing load in hours Available capacity in hours

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Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains

ISBN: 978-1506302935

1st edition

Authors: Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto

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