Asked by Amanda Nazimi on Jun 25, 2024
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A company is preparing a bid on a government contract for 40 units of a certain product. The operations manager estimates the assembly time required for the first two units to be 10.4 hours and 8.3 hours, respectively.
a. What is the appropriate learning curve?
b. What is the average time per unit for the 40 units?
c. Which unit, if any, will require approximately one-half the time of the first unit?
Learning Curve
The concept that people become more efficient and effective at a task over time, with the rate of improvement decreasing as experience accumulates.
Assembly Time
The total time taken to put together the components of a product, crucial in manufacturing for planning, efficiency improvement, and cost estimation.
- Estimate the aggregate and mean time required for production cycles with the aid of learning curves.
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Zybrea KnightJul 02, 2024
Final Answer :
(a) The learning rate is 8.3/10.4 = 0.798 or approximately 80%. (b) The group of 40 units will take 10.4 ∗ 17.193 = 178.8 hours total, for an average of 4.47 hours each. (c) The 9th unit has a unit time factor of 0.493, meaning that it requires approximately 50% of the labour of the first unit.
Learning Objectives
- Estimate the aggregate and mean time required for production cycles with the aid of learning curves.