The Corrupting Influence of Variability - Cycle Time
3 important questions on The Corrupting Influence of Variability - Cycle Time
Assembly operations. What will be affected by increasing the following:
1. Number of components being assembled.
2.Variability of components arrivals.
3. Lack of coordination between component arrivals.
The performance of an assembly station is degraded.
What components make up CT?
- move time
- queue time
- setup time
- process time
- wait-to-batch time
- wait-in-batch time
- wait-to-match time
1: Can there be wait-to-batch or wait-in-batch time when there are no setups in the production process?
2: Can there be queue time when there are both process & transfer batches, or can there only be wait-in-batch and wait-to-batch times then?
1: Yes, but only for transfer batches.
2: I'm inclined to say: yes it can.
Although it might seem that queue time for batches is represented in wait-in-batch time, there could be a queue of batches. Queue time is also represented by the formulas in the 9.4.2 & 9.4.3 technical notes.
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