Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the
order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported:
Inspection time
Wait time from order to start of production
Process time
Move time
Queue time
days
days
days
days
days
Required:
Compute the throughput time.
Note: Round your answer to decimal place.
Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency MCE for the quarter.
Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.
What percentage of the throughput time was spent in nonvalueadded activities?
Note: Round your percentage answer to nearest whole percent.
Compute the delivery cycle time.
Note: Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to decimal place.
If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE?
Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your percentage answer to decimal place.
Answer is complete but not entirely correct.
