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Czech Mate Jake And Dans Marvelous Adventure Case Solution

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1566 1173 Words (7 Pages) Elliott N. Weiss, Robert Collier, Mike Kadish Darden School of Business : UV3571
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Carrier and Kallish did perform well at the Kaizen event in the sense that their suggestions are good and fit in with the model that is already working throughout the rest of the plant. But one of the major problems that they forgot to address was how to execute the new plan with the help of the operators. The operators know that they are temporary plus have a different culture and language from them. And they also know that they are students so they did not take their suggestions seriously.

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Case Analysis for Czech Mate Jake And Dans Marvelous Adventure

1 (a)

The daily capacity for the current PSEM department is as follows:

Daily Capacity = Number of Resources / Average Time

Calculation for Average Time

Operator

Time in minutes

Batch Size

Average time for operator(minutes)

Total average time (minutes)

1

301

6

51.03

52.99

 

410.75

8

 

 

 

308.75

6

 

 

2

407

8

50.88

 

 

303.5

6

 

 

 

307

6

 

 

3

362

7

54.98

 

 

436.5

7

 

 

 

411

8

 

 

4

384

6

55.09

 

 

361

7

 

 

 

356.75

7

 

 

Daily Capacity = 4 / 52.99 = 0.08 per minute

Since the operators have a total of 9 hour workday minus the two 15 minutes break and 2 hour lunch break, they have 8 hours to work 

Daily capacity per hour = 0.08 * 60 = 4.53 units per hour

1 (b)

Throughput time is the average time that a unit needs to flow through the process from the entry to the exit.

Time in minutes

Batch size

Average time per unit

301

6

50.17

410.75

8

51.34

308.75

6

51.46

407

8

50.88

303.5

6

50.58

307

6

51.17

362

7

51.71

436.5

7

62.36

411

8

51.38

384

6

64.00

361

7

51.57

356.75

7

50.96

Sum of Average time per unit = 637.58

Throughput time = 637.58 / 12 = 53.13 minutes

1 (c)

(Note): Observation time was first 3 batches so 3 readings  

 

Operator 1

Operator 2

Operator 3

Operator 4

Total Time

Total Average time= total time/12

Step 1

30.25

40

29.5

40.5

29

31

35.75

36.5

40.25

30

35.25

34.5

412.5

34.38

step 2

73

96.5

72

95.5

71.75

71

85

83

96

72.25

83

84

983

81.92

step 3

66

88.5

67

89

65

66.5

78

77

87.75

65.5

77.25

76.75

904.25

75.35

step 4

23.75

32

24.25

31.5

24.5

23.5

28

29

32

23

29

28.5

329

27.42

step 5

96.25

127.75

95.75

128.5

95

96.5

113

111.5

128.75

96.25

112.25

112

1313.5

109.46

Motion

1

9

7

7

6.25

5

7.25

6.5

7.5

5.75

6.75

7.5

76.5

6.38

Transportation

4

0.5

0.75

0.75

1.25

0.75

0.5

0.75

1.25

1

0.5

0.5

12.5

1.04

Waiting

0

16.5

12.5

14.25

10.75

12.75

14.5

0

17

11.5

17

13

139.75

11.65

Rework

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

92.25

0

78.75

0

0

171

14.25

                                        Total working time (in minutes)    361.83

                                        Total Idol time (in minutes)        19.06

2 (a)    

With the new design the time for Motion, Transportation and Waiting would all be eliminated

Operator

Time in minutes

Batch Size

Average time for operator(minutes)

Total average time (minutes)

1

289.25

6

48.13

50.10

 

384.75

8

 

 

 

288.5

6

 

 

2

385

8

47.94

 

 

285.25

6

 

 

 

288.5

6

 

 

3

339.75

7

52.44

 

 

429.25

7

 

 

 

384.75

8

 

 

4

365.75

6

51.91

 

 

336.75

7

 

 

 

335.75

7

 

 

Daily Capacity = 4 / 50.10 = 0.079 per minute

Daily capacity per hour = 0.079*60

            = 4.79 units per hour

Operator utilization = {(Total Working Time - Total idol time) / Total working time] * 100

                                       = [(361.83 - 19) / 361.83] * 100

                  = 94.73%

2 (b)                                                                                             

Time in minutes

Batch size

Average time per unit

289.25

6

48.21

384.75

8

48.09

288.5

6

48.08

385

8

48.13

285.25

6

47.54

288.5

6

48.08

339.75

7

48.54

429.25

7

61.32

384.75

8

48.09

365.75

6

60.96

336.75

7

48.11

335.75

7

47.96

 

 

603.12

Total Average time

50.26

Throughput time = 50.26 minutes

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