Question: A planned fleet of forklift trucks has an average travel distance per delivery = 500 It loaded and an average empty travel distance n 350 ft. The fleet must make a total of 60 dell hr. Load and unload times are each 0.5 min and the speed of the vehicles = 300 ft/min. The traffic factor for the system = 0.S5. Availability is expected to be 0.95 and worker efficiency is assumed to be 0.90. Determine:
(a) ideal cycle time per delivery,
(b) the resulting average number of deliveries per hour that a forklift truck can make. and
(c) how many trucks are required to accomplish the 60 del/hr.