Question - Oakwood Company produces maple bookcases to customer order. It received an order from a customer to produce 5,000 bookcases. The following information is available for the production of the bookcases.
Process time 13.0 days
Inspection time 0.9 days
Move time 5.5 days
Wait time 10.0 days
Required:
1. Compute the company's manufacturing cycle time.
2. Compute the company's manufacturing cycle efficiency.
3. Oakwood believes it can reduce move time by 1.1 days and wait time by 2.5 days by adopting lean manufacturing techniques. Compute the company's manufacturing cycle efficiency assuming the company's predictions are correct.