Table 7.1 a Toy Company Uses a Kanban System to Make a Make

question 45

Multiple Choice

Table 7.1
A toy company uses a kanban system to make a metal fastener that is a component of several toys. The waiting time for a container of the fasteners during production is 0.25 day; average processing time is 0.15 day per container. Each container holds 200 fasteners. The company uses 2000 fasteners a day in the production of its product.
-Use the information in Table 7.1.Using an efficiency factor of 5 %,calculate the number of kanban containers needed for the fastener.

• A) 3 or less
• B) 4 or 5
• C) 5 or 6
• D) the next person or machine to use or further the current process 7 or more

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