The Break Even Point Is To Be Determined For Two Production Methods One Manual And The Other Automated, The Manual Method Requires Two Workers At $16.50/Hr Each. Together ,Their Production Rate Is 30 Units Per Hour. The Automated Method Has An Initial Cost Of $125,000, At 4 Year Service Life, No Salvage Value And Annual Maintainance Cost =$3,000.No Labor (Except For Mainteinance)Is Required For The Machine, But The Power To Operate It Is 50 Kw(When Running).

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297

If a product goes up in price, and the demand for it drops, that product's demand is a. elastic b. inelastic c. stable d. fixed select the best answer from the choices provided