Daily Usage of an Assembly Is 100 in a Facility

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Essay

Daily usage of an assembly is 100 in a facility that operates 300 days of the year.Setup cost is $5 and annualized carrying cost is $160.Production of this assembly occurs at the rate of 400 per day when production of the assembly is underway.Lead time is 3 days;safety stock is 1/2 day's production.What is the optimum kanban size,and number of kanbans?

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Definitions:

Death Instinct

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to an unconscious drive toward decay, destruction, and death.

Libido

A term used to describe sexual desire or drive, often considered as an instinctual component of personality in psychoanalytic theory.

Psychosexual Stages

Freud’s theory of childhood development focusing on different parts of the body as primary sources of pleasure and conflicts at each stage.

Regression

In psychoanalytic theory, retreating to an earlier, more immature stage of psychosexual development, usually because of stress but sometimes in the service of play and creativity.