You make steering wheels for Tesla using Kanban cards to authorize movement of incoming parts. In one portion of the system, a work center uses an average of 80 parts per hour while running. The manager has assigned an inefficiency factor of 0.14 to the center. Standard containers are designed to hold 5 dozen parts each. The cycle time for parts containers is 100 minutes. How many containers are needed?

You make steering wheels for Tesla using Kanban cards to authorize movement of incoming parts. In one portion of the system, a work center uses an average of 80 parts per hour while running. The manager has assigned an inefficiency factor of 0.14 to the center. Standard containers are designed to hold 5 dozen parts each. The cycle time for parts containers is 100 minutes. How many containers are needed?

Solution

Demand = D = 80

T = 100/60 = 1.67

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