Assignment:
Suggest and evaluate a new process design
a) Based on your insights about current operations suggest at least three plausible design changes with the purpose of reducing the average cycle time and increasing the throughput.
b) Investigate the performance of the new process design in terms of the cycle times, and the daily throughput. Also, look at the resource, activity utilization and queue statistics with 95% confidence intervals as before. What is your conclusion? Is the new design significantly better than the old process in terms of cycle times and daily throughput (the conclusion must be statistically supported)? Are there any obvious drawbacks?