Suppose a lean work center is being operated with a container size of 25 units and a demand rate of 100 units per hour. Also assume it takes 180 minutes for a container to circulate.
a. How many containers are required to operate this system?
b. What is the maximum inventory that can accumulate?
c. How many kanban cards are needed?
For a particular operation, the setup time is 10 minutes and the run time is 50 minutes to produce a standard lot of 40 parts. It takes three additional hours to circulate a container of parts after production is completed. The demand rate is 20,000 parts per month. There are 160 production hours in a month.
a. How many standard containers are needed?
b. What is the takt time of this process?
