Champion Cooling Company Uses a Kanban System at Their Location

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Essay

Champion Cooling Company uses a kanban system at their location in the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The daily demand for fans is 2,000 and management insists on using an alpha level of 0.1. They use containers that hold 24 items and takes 0.02 of a day to process. It takes 0.08 of a day to get a container filled and for it to wait during its cycle. How many containers should they use? If they use the nearest integer value number of containers, what is the actual system alpha?

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Definitions:

Capital-Intensive

A business process or industry that requires large amounts of money to produce goods or services, often due to high costs of machinery and equipment.

Machinery

Physical devices or equipment designed to perform specific tasks in industrial or commercial settings, often part of the fixed assets of a business.

Soft Rationing

The situation that occurs when units in a business are allocated a certain amount of financing for capital budgeting.

Hard Rationing

The situation that occurs when a business cannot raise financing for a project under any circumstances.