The company furniture face lift refinishes old wood

Assignment Help Operation Management

Reference no: EM13382992

The company Furniture Face Lift refinishes old wood furniture. Their process for refinishing chairs has 8 workers and 4 stations. Each chair starts at the Stripping station, then goes to Priming, then to Painting and finally to Inspection. Where there are multiple workers within a station, each worker works independently on his/her own chair. Assume inventory buffers are allowed between each station.

Station	Staffing	Processing time (hours per chair per worker)
Stripping	3	2.5
Priming	2	1.5
Painting	2	1.75
Inspection	1	0.8

a) What is the maximum number of chairs per hour that can be produced? Assume they start the day with inventory at each station to work on.

Process Capacity (chairs/hour)

b) Suppose at the start of the day there is no inventory of chairs in the shop. That is, there are no chairs within any of the stations or between them in any buffer. A truck loaded with 15 chairs arrives. How many hours will it take Furniture Face Lift to complete these 15 chairs?

c) Suppose now that each worker is trained to do all tasks and each worker works on a chair from start to finish, i.e., each worker does Stripping, Priming, Painting and Inspection. What is the maximum capacity of the process in chairs per hour?

Reference no: EM13382992

Questions Cloud

Problem newsboy model betty cooker runs a bakery in san : problem newsboy model betty cooker runs a bakery in san francisco that specializes in her famous black forest cakes.

Problem queuingnbsp pharma dev develops and markets new : problem queuingnbsp pharma dev develops and markets new technological products to be used in health care. the

Problem batchingnbsp sarahs organic soap company makes four : problem batchingnbsp sarahs organic soap company makes four kinds of organic liquid soap- regular lavender citrus and

Problem more process analysisthe white tooth device : problem more process analysisthe white tooth device company is a manufacturer of high-end electric toothbrushes. for

The company furniture face lift refinishes old wood : the company furniture face lift refinishes old wood furniture. their process for refinishing chairs has 8 workers and 4

Research the following financial off balance sheet : research the following financial off balance sheet instrumentsaforeign currency forwards exchange contract binterest

London underground fire at the kings cross underground : london underground fire at the kings cross underground station on 18 november 1987 a wooden escalator caught fire

1nbsp what was howard schultzs original strategic vision : 1.nbsp what was howard schultzs original strategic vision for starbucks? is his 2010 strategic vision for starbucks

You have been recently employed as the director of : you have been recently employed as the director of operations of a hotel. the hotel is in a relatively large city with

User Account

All Pages