Agent S Incorporated Produces Home Security Systems (A) Compute the Company's Manufacturing Cycle Time

question 19

Essay

Agent S Incorporated produces home security systems. The company received and produced an order for 658 systems last month. The following information is available regarding this order.
$\begin{array}{ll}\text { Process time } & 4.2 \text { days } \\\text { Inspection time } & 1.1 \text { days } \\\text { Move time } & 1.5 \text { days } \\\text { Wait time } & 3.7 \text { days }\end{array}$
(a) Compute the company's manufacturing cycle time.
(b) Compute the company's manufacturing cycle efficiency.
(c) The management of Agent S wishes to improve their manufacturing cycle efficiency to 50%. They feel the company's inspection time can be shortened considerably, but that process, move and wait times cannot be reduced below the times given above. Will Agent S meet its goal by focusing only on inspection time? Explain and support your answer.

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