Question: One million units of a certain product are to be manufactured annually on dedicated production machines that run 24 hr/day. 5 day/wk, 50 wk/yr.
(a) If the cycle time of a machine to produce one part is 1.0 min. how many of the dedicated machines will be required 10 keep up with demand? Assume that availability, utilization and worker efficiency 100%, and that no setup time will be lost.
(b) Solve part (a) except that availability = 0.90.