33:799:460 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Capacity Utilization, Full-Time Equivalent, Value Stream Mapping
23 Mar 2016
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Farmington, inc. makes a wide variety of propane tanks. The business is seasonal with may through october being their busy season. During this period, the weekly requirement for the sole customer served from farmington"s columbus, indiana manufacturing plant johnson, inc. is. The columbus plant ships to johnson, inc. weekly by truck. The columbus manufacturing plant runs two eight-hour shifts per day, five days a week during the busy season. A finished propane tank requires three operations: welding, painting, and. Production control receives emailed orders from johnson, inc. weekly for different colors, variations, and models of tanks and issues daily schedules to each operation. Production control also orders raw materials from their supplier b. t. Raw materials are delivered once every two weeks by truck from b. t. Rihanna, an expert in the lean process improvement methodology, traced the material and information flows at the columbus plant for the production of the ncx10, available in three colors and three variations.
