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Beck
Manufacturing Al Beck, president of Beck manufacturing, wants to
determine the capacity of his facil- ity, which produces steering gears
for auto manufacturers. He has asked you to sort through the data and
determine the capacity of the system and how that capacity may be
increased. The operation is a product layout that produces large numbers
of nearly iden- tical products. The process includes milling, grinding,
boring, drilling, and assembling, in that order. Each finished product
requires one operation on each type of machine. For example, each
finished part is processed on one of the five milling machines, one of
the seven grinding machines, etc.
The
facility runs two 8-hour shifts per day, with a third shift for
maintenance. The indus- trial engineering department has provided you
with the following data on present opera- tions. In addition, you have
been told that assembly operations, while not unlimited, can be easily
changed to meet the need.
Operations Number of Machines run time per piece
Milling 5 2
Grinding 7 3
Boring 3 1
Drilling 6 2.5
- Calculate the capacity of each machine center and the capacity of the system.
- Analyze where the focus of the company’s efforts should be if Beck wants to expand capacity. Determine how much extra capacity he can get without causing another operation to become the bottleneck.
- Suggest ways Beck can expand capacity without purchasing new equipment.
Your
paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points) and
supported with the concepts outlined as in the text with additional
scholarly sources
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