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Champion Cooling has just signed a contract to assemble window air conditioners for another company.The list of tasks,including time requirements and immediate predecessors,follows.Initially,the plan was to make 300 units in an eight hour day but as the summer months approach,Champion Cooling finds themselves far behind in total production.They wish to reconfigure their production line in order to produce maximum output.What should their takt time be? Champion Cooling has just signed a contract to assemble window air conditioners for another company.The list of tasks,including time requirements and immediate predecessors,follows.Initially,the plan was to make 300 units in an eight hour day but as the summer months approach,Champion Cooling finds themselves far behind in total production.They wish to reconfigure their production line in order to produce maximum output.What should their takt time be?   A)  5 B)  6 C)  7 D)  10


Definitions:

Further Processing

involves additional operations on a product to enhance its value before selling.

Constrained Resource

A constrained resource refers to a limiting factor in a production or operational process, which restricts the output or throughput of the system.

Current Profitability

A measure of a company's financial performance in the present or most recent accounting period, indicating the net income earned.

Idle Capacity

Unused production capacity or resources that are not being utilized to their full potential.

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