ABC, Inc. manufacturers engine assembly brackets for two major automotive customers. The manufacturing process for the brackets consists of a cell containing 4 steps, after which the brackets are staged for shipping. The information collected by the operations manager at ABC, Inc. is shown below.
Overall Process Attributes	Average demand: 2700/day Batch size:50 Number of shifts per day: 2 Availaility: 8 hours per shift with a 45 minute lunch break
Process Step 1	Cycle time: 10 seconds Setup time: 2 minutes Uptime:100% Operators:1 WIP:4000 units ( before step 1)
Processs Step 2	Cycle time: 12 seconds Setup time: 2.5 minutes Uptime: 100% Operators: 1 WIP: 4000 units ( Before step 2)
Process Step 3	Cycle time: 17 seconds Setup time:0 seconds Uptime:100% Operators:1 WIP:2000 units ( before step 3)
Process Step 4	Cycle time: 15 seconds Setup time: 1 seconds Uptime:100% Operators:1 WIP: 1600 units ( before step 4) WIP: 15700 units ( before shippings)
Customer Shipments	One shipment of 13500 units each week
Informtion Flow	All comunications with customet are electornic. There is a weekly order to Forming All materila is pushed.
a. Using data shown above; a value stream map for MegaAuto, Inc. and show how the data box values are calculated.
b. What is the takt time for this manufacturing cell?
c. What is the production lead time at each process in the manufacturing cell?
d. What is the total processing time of this manufacturing cell?
e. What is the capacity of this manufacturing cell?