A company that produces flour products is about to close, but the new administrator has made some changes including documenting the processes. For the successful realization of the budget, among the considerations that must be taken into account are:

The process runs every day from Monday to Friday, 20 days per month, with a single 7.5-hour shift with half an hour of preparation.

The sequence of the process appears in the diagram in seconds, for this analysis ignore the transport.

Employees are paid $130.00 per hour, generally.

A. Line capacity and balance.

Determine based on the operations chart and standards:

1. Determine current maximum capacity with one operator per operation

2. Unit cost with this scheme

3. The line balancing required to meet a production of 7,000 units per month

(this will be considered as the first month of production). Respect sequence.

4. Cost per unit with the BALANCED line.

A. Learning curve and incentive plan.

5. The projection of the production that can be achieved month by month during months two, three and four, knowing that the learning curve is 72%.

6. The unit cost for the same months

B. INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

7. Lessons learned and Recommendations to the company.