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1. The staff training center at a large regional hospital provides training sessions in CPR to all employees. Assume that the capacity of this training system was designed to be 1800 employees per year. Since the training center was first put in use, the program has become more complex, so that 1400 now represents the most employees that can be trained per year. In the past year, 1350 employees were trained. Calculate the efficiency and the utilization of this system.
2. Explain what a flexible manufacturing system is. List the benefits of flexible manufacturing systems
3. Describe some major challenges to implementing a successful build to order system
Part Three, productivity exercises, 25 marks
Answer following two exercises (7 marks & 18 marks)
1- This year, AD Investment, Inc will produce 60,000 hot water heaters at its plant in UAE, in order to meet expected global demand. To accomplish this, each laborer at the plant will work 160 hours per month. If the labor productivity at the plant is 0.15 hot water heaters per labor hour, how many laborers are employed at the plant?
2- Ahmad makes billiard balls in his logistics park plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. Ahmad is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He would like to know if his organization in maintaining the manufacturing average of 3% increases in productivity. He has the following data representing a month from last year and equivalent month this year
Last year Now
Units produced 1200 1200
Labor (hours) 500 450
Resin (Pounds) 50 45
Capital invested ($) 10000 11000
Energy (BTU) 2000 1800
a- Show the productivity percentage change for each inputs’ category
Ahmad determines his costs to be as follows: Labor: $10 per hour, Resin: $ 5 per pound, Capital expense: 1% per month of investment, Energy: $.50 per BTU
b- Show the percent change in productivity for one month last year versus one month this year, on a multifactor basis with dollars as the common denominator.
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