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    The document describes a toy truck assembly line process at PowerToys Inc. with 9 stations and workers. Station 2 is the bottleneck with the longest processing time. The current capacity is 12 toy trucks per hour and direct labor cost is $15 per truck. Consolidating the work into a single work cell would reduce the cost to $13.50 per truck. With a staff reduction to 6 workers, the tasks would need to be reassigned to stations worked by the same person when adjacent. This would reduce the new line capacity.

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    The document describes a toy truck assembly line process at PowerToys Inc. with 9 stations and workers. Station 2 is the bottleneck with the longest processing time. The current capacity is 12 toy trucks per hour and direct labor cost is $15 per truck. Consolidating the work into a single work cell would reduce the cost to $13.50 per truck. With a staff reduction to 6 workers, the tasks would need to be reassigned to stations worked by the same person when adjacent. This would reduce the new line capacity.

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    Powertoys Inc Produces A Small Remote Controlled Toy Truck On A

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    The document describes a toy truck assembly line process at PowerToys Inc. with 9 stations and workers. Station 2 is the bottleneck with the longest processing time. The current capacity is 12 toy trucks per hour and direct labor cost is $15 per truck. Consolidating the work into a single work cell would reduce the cost to $13.50 per truck. With a staff reduction to 6 workers, the tasks would need to be reassigned to stations worked by the same person when adjacent. This would reduce the new line capacity.

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    toy truck on a

    PowerToys Inc. produces a small remote-controlled toy truck on a conveyor belt with nine
    stations. Each station has, under the current process layout, one worker assigned to it. Stations
    and processing times are summarized in the following table:

    a. What is the bottleneck in this process?

    b. What is the capacity, in toy trucks per hour, of the assembly line?

    c. What is the direct labor cost for the toy truck with the current process if each worker receives
    $15/hour, expressed in dollars pertoy truck?

    d. What would be the direct labor cost for the toy truck if work would be organized in a work cell,
    that is, one worker performs all tasks? Assume that the processing times would remain
    unchanged (i.e., there are no specialization gains).

    e. What is the utilization of the worker in station 2? Because of a drastically reduced forecast,
    the plant management has decided to cut staffing from nine to six workers per shift. Assume
    that

    (i) The nine tasks in the preceding table cannot be divided;

    (ii) The nine tasks are assigned to the six workers in the most efficient way possible; and

    (iii) If one worker is in charge of two tasks, the tasks have to be adjacent (i.e., one worker
    cannot work on tasks 1 and 3).

    f. How would you assign the nine tasks to the six workers?

    g. What is the new capacity of the line (in toy trucks per hour)?

    ANSWER
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