Hinge Manufacturing Company employs a Kanban system for a component part. The daily demand is 900 hinges. Each container has a wait time of 0.05/day, and a processing time of 0.37 days. The Container size is 60 hinges and the safety factor (a) is 10%.
a. How many Kanban card sets should be authorized?
b. What is the maximum inventory of this hinge in the system?