You are asked to analyze the kanban system of lewin a


You are asked to analyze the kanban system of? LeWin, a French manufacturer of gaming devices. One of the workstations feeding the assembly line produces part M670N. The daily demand for M670N is 1 comma 7751,775 units. The average processing time per unit is 0.0050.005 day.? LeWin's records show that the average container spends 0.9000.900 days waiting at the feeder workstation. The container for M670N can hold 385385 units. 1515 containers are authorized for the part. Recall that p overbarp is the average processing time per? container, not per individual part. a. The value of the policy? variable, alphaα?, that expresses the amount of implied safety stock in this system is 0.1520.152. ?(Enter your response rounded to three decimal? places.) b. Use the implied value of alpha from part a to determine the required reduction in waiting time if 33 containers werecontainers were removed. Assume that all other parameters remain constant. The new waiting time is 0.3340.334 ?day(s) ?(enter your response rounded to three decimal? places) or a reduction in waiting time of nothing?% ?(enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal? places).

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