For this assignment, you will be required to read the following prompt and chart and answer the questions that follow.
Yahoo Widgets, Inc. (YWI) is a widget manufacturer in Williamsburg, Virginia. YWI receives raw material sheets of plastic from Tribe Plastics, once per week, on Monday, for the family of widget models it produces. These widgets are then shipped to another manufacturer, Acme Gadgets, Inc. (AGI), for inclusion in its family of gadgets, which are sold to end users. For its new product line, the gadget manufacturer requires two types of widgets, large and small, that are packaged in returnable trays holding 55 widgets for shipment. The trays are returned, empty, to YWI after the widgets are used by AGI. The manufacturing process consists of a thermoforming activity that transforms the sheets of plastic into a "rough" widget, which requires a drilling process step and a grinding and sanding process step before the packing and shipping process step. These steps and related information are shown in the following table.
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Process Characteristics
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Average Demand: 5000 per day, 3500 large, 1500 small Batch size: 1100
Number of shifts per day 2
Shift 8 hours with 30 minute lunch
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Process Step 1
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Thermo-form
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Cycle time = 15 seconds
Set-up tine =15 minties
Up time= 85%
Operators = 2
Every part every week
WIP = 5 days of sheets n front of Thermo-forming machine
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Process Step 2
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Drill
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Cycle time = 32 seconds
Set-up tine = 25 minutes Up trne= 80%
Operators = 4
Every Part every week
WIP = 1250 large, 1500 small
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Process Step 3
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Orin, Sand
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Cycle time = 22 seconds
Set-up time = 27 minutes
Up time= 75% Operators = 5 Every part every week
WIP = 1750 large, 1250 smell
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Process Step 4
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Pack and Sly
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WIP = 750 large, 125 sma
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Shipments
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One shipment of 5000 per day
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Information Flow
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Electronic commtrication of forecasts to supplier
Electronic communication of daly orders from customer
Electronic communication of forecasts from customer
Electronic cornmunicabon of daly slipping schedule to process step 4 Electronic cornrnunicabon of weekly schedule to process steps 1-3.
All materiel is notched
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1. Using the data shown in the table above, construct a value stream map for Yahoo Widgets, Inc.
2. What is the takt time of the manufacturing cell?
3. What is the production lead time for each process step?
4. What is the total processing time for the manufacturing cell?
5. What is the total capacity of the manufacturing cell?
Requirements
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