Assignment:
Plainwell Polymers is going to producing the main dashboard structure for a new car design. The dashboard will be produced in three colors with expected daily demand as follows:
Black: 410 units/day
Grey: 130 units/day
Tan: 215 units/day
The injection molding machine can produce a total of 1, 080 parts per day running 24 hours per day. If Plainwell is going to produce the parts using a cyclic schedule and it takes 2 hours to change from one color to the next, what is the minimum cycle time for the cyclic schedule in hours?