{"id":132301,"date":"2023-08-20T14:32:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/hw-1669-castner-corporation-jit-inventory-system\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:32:16","slug":"hw-1669-castner-corporation-jit-inventory-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/hw-1669-castner-corporation-jit-inventory-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Hw-1669 castner corporation jit inventory system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Castner Corporation is considering implementation of a JIT inventory system. The company\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>industrial engineer recently conducted a study to determine the average number of days spent in<\/p>\n<p>each activity of the production process. The following table summarizes her findings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Activity Number of Days<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inspecting materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<\/p>\n<p>Storing materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<\/p>\n<p>Moving materials into production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<\/p>\n<p>Setting up production equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<\/p>\n<p>Cutting materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<\/p>\n<p>Bending materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<\/p>\n<p>Assembling finished products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<\/p>\n<p>Painting finished products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>a. <\/strong>Identify Castner\u2019s value-added production activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>b. <\/strong>Identify Castner\u2019s non-value-added production activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>c. <\/strong>Calculate Castner\u2019s total cycle time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>d. <\/strong>Determine Castner\u2019s manufacturing efficiency ratio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>e. <\/strong>Which of the above activities might be reduced or eliminated if Castner implemented a JIT<\/p>\n<p>system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>f. <\/strong>What ethical issues might be related to eliminating some of the non-value-added activities?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Castner Corporation is considering implementation of a JIT inventory system. The company\u2019s industrial engineer recently conducted a study to determine the average number of days spent in each activity of the production process. The following table summarizes her findings: Production Activity Number of Days Inspecting materials . . . . . . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}