Question

Problem Definition: Pines Industries wants to introduce a new and improved Green Chile Processor, the Pines GCP 4000, to replace the popular GCP 3000. Due to demand projections, the GCP 3000 will be out of stock on I January 2019 and will be immediately replaced by the GCP 4000. As the head production engineer, the CEO tasked you to provide a recommendation on production scheduling, workforce planning, and warchousing in order to scamlessly replace the GCP 3000 with the GCP 4000 in January 2019. This recommendation is due no later than 2 ?ugust 2018 via NMSU Canvas. Product Forecast: Pincs industrics sells the GCP 3000 worldwide with most sales in the Northern Hemisphere. The CEO assumes that GCP 3000 sales over the previous 24 months to be the best forecasting tool for GCP 4000 sales in the first 12 months following introduction. Monthly sales for the past 24 months are as follows: 2017 2018 January10167 9614 February 10279 10325 March 10106 10107 9896 9596 9807 9596 10182 9896 24819 25348 25141 25050 May Junc July August September 19697 20016 October November 9993 10066 December 9986 9919 19882 19665 What trends do you see in the previous sales demands? Why? Product Structure:The GCP 4000 is similar to the GCP 3000, but requires completely new components. Components A, B, and C are assembled in house, but D, E, and F are sourced from vendors with the following shipment times:

Additional Information

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•A backorder costs Pines Industries $10 per item.

•Storing an item at the warehouse costs $2 per item per month.

•Based on training and severance, there is a one-time $2000 cost for

hiring a worker and a $3000 for firing a worker due to production. Based

on these costs, what can you assume? You can arbitrarily set the worker

count on 1 January based on your production line estimation from the

previous month.

•The GCP 3000 and 4000 are high end machines retailing between $8000

and $10000 based on the market. What does that tell you?

Questions

•Using line balancing, how you recommend structuring work? How many

assembly lines are needed based on a 36 hour workweek and 4 week

month.

Answer 1