Pauline Found Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kanbans to support its telephone switching-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the kanban for subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed.

Setup cost $=\$ 30$

Annual holding cost $=\$ 120$ per subassembly

Daily production $=20$ subassemblies

Annual usage $=2,500(50$ weeks $\times 5$ days each $\times$ daily usage of 10 subassemblies)

Lead time $=16$ days

Safety stock $=4$ days $^{\prime}$ production of subassemblies

Rick Wing has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing automobile steering wheels. Use the following data to prepare for a reduced lot size. The firm uses a work year of 305 days.

What is the setup cost, based on the desired lot size?

Hartley Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners for the defense industry. The owner, Janet Hartley, has asked you to reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of analysis, you develop the following data for scanner connectors used in one work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this connector?

Tej Dhakar's company wants to establish kanbans to feed a newly established work cell. The following data have been provided. How many kanbans are needed?

Rick Wing has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing automobile steering wheels. Use the following data to prepare for a reduced lot size. The firm uses a work year of 305 days.

What is the setup time, based on$40 per hour setup labor?

Which of the following does NOT belong to holding costs?

A. storage costs

B. pilferage, scrap, and obsolescence

C. insurance on inventory

D. order processing

Carol Cagle has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing trailer hitches in Arlington, Texas. The plant has an average inventory turnover of only 12 times per year. She has therefore determined that she will reduce her component lot sizes. She has developed the following data for one component, the safety chain clip: Annual demand = 31,200 units Daily demand = 120 units Daily production (in 8 hours $) = 960 units Desired lot size (1 hour of production) = 120 units Holding cost per unit per year = 12 Setup labor cost per hour =$20

Rick Wing has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing automobile steering wheels. Use the following data to prepare for a reduced lot size. The firm uses a work year of 305 days.

What is the setup time, based on $\$ 40$ per hour setup labor?

Given the following information about a product at Michael Gibson's firm, what is the appropriate setup time?

Annual demand $=39,000$ units

Daily demand $=150$ units

Daily production $=1,000$ units

Desired lot size $=150$ units

Holding cost per unit per year $=\$ 10$

Setup labor cost per hour $=\$ 40$

Rick Wing has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing automobile steering wheels. Use the following data to prepare for a reduced lot size. The firm uses a work year of 305 days.

What is the setup cost, based on the desired lot size?

The desired daily output for an assembly line is $360$ units. This assembly line will operate $450$ minutes per day. The following table contains information on this product's task times and precedence relationships.

$$\begin{array}{ccc} \text { Task } & \begin{array}{c} \text { Task Time } \\ \text { (Seconds) } \end{array} & \begin{array}{c} \text { Immediate } \\ \text { Predecessor } \end{array} \\ \hline \text { A } & 30 & - \\ \text { B } & 35 & \text { A } \\ \text { C } & 30 & \text { A } \\ \text { D } & 35 & \text { B } \\ \text { E } & 15 & \text { C } \\ \text { F } & 65 & \text { C } \\ \text { G } & 40 & \text { E, F } \\ \text { H } & 25 & \text { D, G } \\ \hline \end{array}$$

a. Draw the precedence diagram.

b. What is the workstation cycle time required to produce $360$ units per day?

c. Balance this line using the largest number of following tasks. Use the longest task time as a secondary criterion.

d. What is the efficiency of your line balance, assuming it is running at the cycle time from part (b) ?

Refer to the consolidated statements of cash flows in the Campbell Soup Company annual report within the appendix.\

a. Identify the two most significant sources of cash from operating activities during 2014. How much of a cash source amount do these items represent?
b. What was the firm's most significant investing activity during 2014 , and how much cash did this activity use or generate?
c. Identify the two most significant financing activities during 2014. What was the net effect on cash of these items?

Identify three factors that may cause net income to differ from net cash flows from operating activities.

The following set of seven jobs is to be processed through two work centers at George Heinrich's printing company. The sequence is first printing, then binding. Processing time at each of the work centers is shown in the following table:

What is the total length of time of this optimal solution?