When 100 units have been processed in Work Centre 1, they are transferred to Work Centre 2.

Example: 1000 units processing route

Operation Work Centre Set-up Time Run Time/Unit

1 1 40 Minutes 2.4 mins/unit
2 2 20 Minutes 1.44 mins/unit

Single shift of 8 hours per day on 5 days per week in Work Centre 1 and Work Centre 2.

- Create Gantt Chart showing the earliest start and finish schedule for this order under a conventional
scheduling approach when all 1000 units are processed together in one batch.
- Compare this to a Gantt Chart showing when batch sizes of 100 are used instead (assume one set-up in Work
Centre 2 is sufficient for all batches).
- Show maths calculations backing up the Gantt Charts
- Explain advantage of using batch transfer system.
Capacity bills for items A and B

Item A Item B
Work Center Hours/Unit Work Center Hours/Unit
ALF-A 1.0 ALF-T 0.4
HLT-A 0.5 HLT-T 0.7
MIS-A 0.7 MIS-T 0.5
MVX-A 0.7 MVX-T 1.0
PCB-A 0.4 PCB-P 0.8
PCB-P 1.2 PCB-W 1.6

Current capacity data and conditions for the work centres:

Work Center Committed Workload Capacity Capacity Maximum

(Standard Hours) Standard
ALF-A 70 480 528
ALF-T 5 80 88
HLT-A 438 800 880
HLT-T 85 160 176
MIS-A 270 800 880
MIS-T 14 80 88
MVX-A 399 1120 1232
MVX-T 79 80 88
OLD-P 81 0 0
PCB-A 52 160 176
PCB-H 44 160 176
PCB-I 124 320 352
PCB-M 441 480 520
PCB-P 405 960 1056
PCB-T 918 1680 1845
PCB-V 123 160 176
PCB-W 56 160 176
Total 3634 7680 8440

- New order of 100 units of both A and B requested to be ready within the next 20 working days.

Stock is readily available, work centre MVX-T increases capacity to one full person (capacity now = 160). This was
accomplished by reducing MVX-A to 6.5 persons and no other orders have been booked.

Create New Capacity Status Report

Work Post Order Acceptance Capacity
Load
Center Std. Hrs. (Standard)

ALF-A
ALF-T
HLT-A
HLT-T
MIS-A
MIS-T
MVX-A
MVX-T
OLD-P
PCB-A
PCB-H
PCB-I
PCB-M
PCB-P
PCB-T
PCB-V
PCB-W
Totals