Prior to Installing a JIT System, Charlotte Company Used Machine

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Essay

Prior to installing a JIT system, Charlotte Company used machine hours to assign maintenance costs to its three products of 4-inch, 6-inch, and 8-inch plastic pipe.
The maintenance costs totaled $120,000 per year.The machine hours used by each product and the quantity produced of each product are as follows:
After installing JIT, three manufacturing cells were created and the cell workers were trained to perform maintenance.Maintenance costs for the three cells still totaled $120,000; however, these costs are now traceable to each cell.
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