San Jose State University Operations And Supply Chain Management Assignment Help - Tombro Industries

Question - Tombro Industries is in the process of automating one of its plants and developing a flexible
manufacturing system. The company is finding it necessary to make many changes in operating
procedures. Progress has been slow, particularly in trying to develop new performance measures for
the factory.
In an effort to evaluate performance and determine where improvements can be made, management
has gathered the following data relating to activities over the last four months:

The president has read in industry journals that throughput time, MCE, and delivery cycle time are
important measures of performance, but no one is sure how they are computed. You have been
asked to assist the company, and you have gathered the following data relati ...Read More ng to these measures:

Required:

1 For each month, compute the following performance measures:
(a) Throughput time.
(b) MCE.
(c) Delivery cycle time.
2. Using the performance measures given in the main body of the problem and the performance
measures computed in (1) above, do the following:
(a) Identify areas where the company seems to be improving.
(b)Identify areas where the company seems to be deteriorating.
3. Refer to the inspection time, process time, and so forth, given for month 4.
(a) Assume that in month 5 the inspection time, process time, and so forth, are the same as for month
4, except that the company is able to completely eliminate the queue time during production using
Lean Production. Compute the new throughput time and MCE.
(b) Assume that in month 6 the inspection time, process time, and so forth, are the same as in month
4, except that the company is able to eliminate both the queue time during production and the
inspection time using Lean Production. Compute the new throughput time andMCE. ...Read Less

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