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Please use the following information from part 3: Station/Resource R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Number of workers 5 3 3 2 3 4 Processing

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Station/Resource R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6
Number of workers 5 3 3 2 3 4
Processing time for A (minutes/unit/worker) 2.5 2 1.5 0 1 0
Processing time for B (minutes/unit/worker) 0.5 1 2 1.5 0 1.5
Processing time for C (minutes/unit/worker) 2 1.5 0 0 2.5 1
Capacity
Capacity (minutes/hour) 300 180 180 120 180 240
Capacity (minutes/day) (10 hours/day) 3000 1800 1800 1200 1800 2400
Demand, Workload, & Implied Utilization
Demand for A (units/day) 540 540 540 0 540 0
Demand for B (units/day) 576 576 576 576 0 576
Demand for C (units/day) 696 696 0 0 696 696
Workload on A (minutes/day) 1350 1080 810 0 540 0
Workload on B (minutes/day) 288 576 1152 864 0 864
Workload on C (minutes/day) 1392 1044 0 0 1740 696
Total workload (minutes/day) 3030 2700 1962 864 2280 1560 Demand Acceptance Ratio
Implied utilization (%, 2 decimals) 101% 150% 109% 72% 127% 65% 67%
Flow Rate & Utilization
Flow rate of A (units/day) 360 360 360 0 360 0
Flow rate of B (units/day) 384 384 384 384 0 384
Flow rate of C (units/day) 464 464 0 0 464 464
Effective workload on A (minutes/day) 900 720 540 0 360 0
Effective workload on B (minutes/day) 192 384 768 576 0 576
Effective workload on C (minutes/day) 928 696 0 0 1160 464
Total effective workload (minutes/day) 2020 1800 1308 576 1520 1040
Effective IU (%, 2 decimals) 67% 100% 73% 48% 84% 43%
Utilization (%, 2 decimals) 67% 100% 73% 48% 84% 43%
Part 4 is the continuation of Part 3. Part 3 is mainly about how the restaurant operates given the current settings. Part 4 goes further to identify wastes and eliminate them, which is the notion of lean operations. To enrich your work, you would need to review and apply the concepts of lean operations in Module 06 and methods of process improvements in Module 04. In your report of this part, you need to present the following: (a) Explicitly state the wastes that you see in the earlier U-profile (Part 3). State if the process is balanced or not. Briefly discuss the effects of the wastes on production, revenue, and profit. (b) A brief proposal on how to eliminate the wastes that you find. (Hint: labor reconfiguration) (c) A new Extended Table to show how your proposal in (b) can work. Essentially, you would do some experiments (trials and errors) with the new Extended Table in Excel where: - The number of employees stays unchanged throughout your experiment. - Assume that you already cross-trained the workers and, hence, you can easily move them around the resources. - The number of workers at one resource can be understood as the percentages of time they work at that resource (for example: two workers work full time or 100% and the third worker spends only 35% of his/her time at that station). Thus, the number of workers can be presented as a decimal number (for example: 2.350 workers). - You can move the workers around the resources with increments as fine as 0.001 workers. - With a new labor setup, you should achieve all utilizations close to 100%, e.g. more than 99%. (d) Discussion on the new outcomes that you get in (c). Note that there is no single best new outcome! Your discussion emphasis should be on improvements in labor utilization, balance of the process, production, revenue, and profit. For future analysis, you can have different demand acceptance ratios for different products. However, you do not need to consider different DARs in this current project

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