Battle Creek Cereal Company has four main products: Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes, Bran Flakes and Strawberry Flakes. The average daily demand for the products is: Corn Flakes: 1,110 CS Frosted Flakes: 2,295 CS Bran Flakes: 1,945 CS Strawberry Flakes: 2,560 CS These products are manufactured on a single assembly line with a daily production rate of 12,675 CS. It takes Battle Creek one day to set up for each product. If they run production in a cyclic schedule, what is the minimum cycle time in hours assuming Battle Creek runs 24 hours per day?
Given Daily demands are
Total Daily demand = 1100 +2295+1945+2560 =7910 CS
Capacity of assembly line for 24 hours = 12,675 CS
Time taken for production of daily demand of all four items = (7910/12675)*24 Hours =14.977 Hours = 14.98 Hours
However,
it is given time taken for set up for production individual item is 24 hours, That means for proudciton of theese four items it takes 4*24 hours for set up.
Hence the total set up time = 4*24 hours =96 Hours.
Cycle time is defeined as the time taken from the starting to the end of the prodcution of item.
If they run production in a cyclic schedule, what is the minimum cycle time in hours = Set up time + Production time
=4*24 hours +14.98 Hours
=110.98 Hours
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