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GOM3 Exercise Return to King for Using More Machines Return to King for Using More Machines Question: The model J Wagon is to be assembled on a conveyor belt. Five hundred wagons are required per day. Production time per day is 420 minutes, and the assembly steps and times for the wagon are given in the following Exhibit. Assignment: find the balance that minimizes the number of workstations, subject to cycle time and precedence constraints. Question A company is considering adding a new feature that will increase unit sales by 6 percent and product cost by 10 percent. Profit is expected to increase by 16 percent of the increased sales. Initially the product cost incurred by the company was 63 percent of the sales price. Should be the feature be added? Let the sales be $100M. Solution Day 1 Problem 1 Sales increase by 6% = $100M x 6% = $6M Benefits: Profits increase by 16% of the increased sales = $6M x 16% = $0.96M Cost: Increase product cost by 10% = ($100M x 63%) x 10% = $6.3M Because costs exceed benefits, the new feature should not be added. Question An automobile manufacturer is considering a change in an assembly line that should save money due to a reduction in labor and material cost. The change involves the installation of four new robots that will automatically install windshields. The cost of the four robots, including installation and initial programming, is $400,000. Current practice is to amortize the initial cost of robots over two years on a straight-line basis. The process engineer estimates that one full-time technician will be needed to monitor, maintain, and reprogram the robots on an ongoing basis. This person will cost approximately $60,000 per year. Currently, the company uses four full-time employees on this job and they each make about $52,000 per year. One of these employees is a material handler, and this person will still be needed with the new process. To complicate matters, the process engineer estimates that the robots wil