The Chester Table Company Mass Produces Quality End Tables for Motels

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Essay

The Chester Table Company mass produces quality end tables for motels. They produce 5,000 end tables per week. The owner is trying to determine how many workers he needs. The workers work 40 hours per week but are idle about three percent of the time because of the cleaning of their area. Their performance rating is equal to one. The owner has developed these time standards for operations per table:
Transporting the table through the plant = 2 minutes
Table top = 10 minutes
One leg = 4 minutes
Finishing = 5 minutes
a. How long does it take (in minutes) to produce one table?
b. What is the labor standard (in minutes) for this operation?
c. What is the minimum number of workers needed to produce 5000 tables in one week?

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