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Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped.

Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the
order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported:
Inspection time
Wait time (from order to start of production)
Process time
Move time
Queue time
0.6 days
15.5 days
3.0 days
0.9 days
4.4 days
Required:
Compute the throughput time.
Note: Round your answer to 1 decimal place.
Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter.
Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.
What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non-value-added activities?
Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.
Compute the delivery cycle time.
Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 1 decimal place.
If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE?
Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place.
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