Prior to Installing a JIT System, Johnson Company Used Machine

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Essay

Prior to installing a JIT system, Johnson 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 $540,000 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 $540,000; however, these costs are now traceable to each cell.
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Definitions:

Common Isotope

A variant of a chemical element that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons in its nucleus, and is normally more abundant than other isotopes.

Carbon

A chemical element with symbol C, essential to all known life forms, and the basis of organic chemistry.

Atomic Mass

The mass of an atom, typically expressed in atomic mass units (amu), representing the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.

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