Conduct an investigation to determine the effect of replacing the final stage of the disc sorting process, with a robot. The robot is fixed in position at the end of the conveyor. It will pick up the disc as soon as it drops onto the conveyor. It will then identify the colour of the disc and place it in the correct collector at the end of the process. The robot takes 8 seconds per disc. The time taken to load a batch of 4 discs into the feeder is 12 seconds. Setup times for the machines is 3 minutes per batch. The company operates 6 hours per day, 5 days per week.

CAN YOU PLEASE WRITE ME AN INTRODUCTION OF THIS ASSIGNMENT? 500 WORDS WILL BE GREAT IF POSSIBLE.