Assignment task: Use your knowledge of Little's Law to answer the following questions:
1. As the cycle time increases, what happens to the throughput time and throughput rate? Why?
2. As the cycle time decreases, what happens to the throughput time and throughput rate? Why?
3. As the line length increases, what happens to the throughput time and throughput rate? Why?
4. As the line length decreases, what happens to the throughput time and throughput rate? Why?
5. How does the minimum takt time that the system can handle change as the cycle time changes?
6. How does the minimum takt time that the system can handle change as the line length changes?
7. Is it possible for a process to have the same throughput rate with either both high work in process (WIP) and high throughput time or with both low WIP and low throughput time? a. Which would you rather have? Why