1. Borges Machine shop has 1 -year contract for production of 200,000 gears. Owner hopes the contract will be extended and volume increase next year. Costs for 3 alternatives: a) Which process is best for this contract? b) Determine the most economical volume for each process. c) Determine the best process each of the following volumes - 75,000 - 275,000 - 375,000 d) If a contract for second and third years are pending, what are the implication for process selection? 2. If a plant has an effective capacity of 6500 and an efficiency of 88%, what is the actual (planned) output? 3. Material delays have routinely limited production of household sinks to 400 units per day. If the plant efficiency is 80%, what is the effective capacity? 4. Under ideal conditions, a service bay at Fast Lube can serve 6 cars per hour. The effective capacity and efficiency of service bay are 5.5 and 0.88 respectively. What is the minimum number of service bays Fast Lube needs to achieve an anticipated of 200 cars per 8 -hour day? 5. A work cell at a Laundry has workstation with 2 machines. Each unit produced at the station needs to be processed by both the machines. Each machine has a production capacity of 4 units per hour. What is the throughput time of the work cell? 6. Ken Gilbert owns the Knoxville Warriors a minor league baseball team. He wishes to move the team to either Mobile (Alabama) or Jackson (Mississippi). The table below gives the factors that Gilbert thinks are important, their weights and scores. - What site should be selected? - Jackson just raised its incentive package score to 75 . Why doesn't this impact your decision? 7. Production manager after extensive analysis identified a product he believes should be handled in a work cell. Operations that are necessary are listed below. The customer expects delivery of 250 units per day and the workday is 420 minutes. - What is the takt time? - How many employees should be cross-trained for the cell? - Which operations may warrant special consideration