MNGT 404

Mohamed Elkhatib
Georgina Giles
Anna Swiderek
Eliza Wojnarowska
 Toshiba was formed in 1939 through a
merger
 Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Electric Company

 Toshiba became the first company in Japan

to create:
 Fluorescent lamps (1940)
 Radar (1942)
 Broadcasting Equipment (1952)
 Digital Computers (1954)
 Toshiba became the first in the world to
produce:
 One megabit DRAM (1985)
 Laptop Computer, T3100 (1985)

 Electronic giant
 Salesof $47.9 billion (1995)
 Net profit of $447 million (1995)
 Notebooks and PCs, 52% of sales (1995)
 Toshiba produced more than 5 million portable
PCS by 1995, as the market for portable PCs was
rapidly expanding
 19%share of 2.85 million notebook computers sold in
U.S. (1994
 Toshiba, Ome Works 1968
 50 km west of Tokyo, 860,000 square feet
 Produced personal computers, word processors, PC
boards..
 Research and design labs
 2,600 employees (440 direct factory, 1,050 design
engineers)
 Full-time, part-time, temporary, and affiliated
workers
 Toshiba is facing the problem of
how to seamlessly and
successfully add a new product
model to an already troubled
assembly line process without
harming the production of the
current product models.
 Notebook Assembly Line
Production
 Current Production
 Employee Overtime
 New Model Production
 Toshiba can obtain the help of affiliated
companies. This could either increase their
own production of notebook computers or
send workers to Ome to increase Ome’s
production.
 Toshiba can hire temporary or part-time
workers, or have the regular workers work
additional overtime.
 Toshiba can reevaluate the work load of the
entire plant by shifting workers from other
areas of the plant.
Assuming the assembly line prototype is implemented as
shown in Exhibit 1, calculate the following quantities:

 Process capacity: on average, one notebook is assembled

every two minutes by 10 line workers (currently station # 2
is a bottleneck 114 sec)
 Capacity of the process= capacity of the resource with the
longest total time  smallest capacity.
 Capacity=1/114 sec (the longest activity)
 Capacity=0.00877 notebooks/sec
 0.00877*3600(seconds in one hour)=31.5789 notebooks per
hour
- The maximum number of computers that can
be produced in a 7.5 hour shift
31.5789 notebooks per hour*7.5h=236.842
computers per shift.

- Direct Labor Content per notebook (i.e., the

amount of time a worker actually works on the
computer while it is on the assembly line.)
110+114+101+107+103+107+108+93+(310-
208[software load that does not require
operator])+105=1,050 seconds
Direct Labor Idle Time per notebook computer
assembled (i.e., the amount of time workers
are idle per computer assembled)

(114-110)+(114-114)+(114-101)+(114-107)+
+(114-103)+(114-107)+(114-108)+(114-93)+
+(114-102)+(114-105)=
=4+0+13+7+11+7+6+21+12+9=90 seconds
Inventory on the assembly line:
Flow rate = 0.0087 computers per sec
We have 12 spaces on the assembly line and
the assembly line will move to the next
station every 114 seconds.
Therefore the flow time is 12 stations*114
seconds =1368
Inventory on the assembly line=flow rate*flow
time
Inventory on the assembly
line=0.0087*1368=11.9