Continuous Flow vs. Departmental Flow Manufacturing Anderson Company has the following departmental manufacturing structure for one of its products: Wait 7.5 minutes Move and wait 15 minutes time = 15 min. time - 18 min. Molding Welding Move and wait time = 22.5 min 12 minutes 7 minutes Move and wait time = 19.5 min. Polishing Assembly After some study, the production manager of Anderson recommended the following revised cellular manufacturing approach: 15 minutes 7.5 minutes Welding Molding Polishing -> Assembly 12 minutes 10.5 minutes Required: 1. Calculate the total time it takes to produce a batch of 20 units using Anderson's traditional departmental structure. 905 minutes 2. Using cellular manufacturing, how much time is saved producing the same batch of 20 units? 575 minutes Assuming the cell operates continuously, what is the production rate? x units per hour Which process controls this production rate? Welding process 3. What if the processing times of molding, welding, and assembly are all reduced to six minutes each? What is the production rate now? x units per hour How long will it take to produce a batch of 20 units? 240 minutes