Toshiba(1)[1]final

Mohamed Elkhatib

Georgina Giles

Anna Swiderek

Eliza Wojnarowska

MNGT 404

Toshiba was formed in 1939 through a mergerShibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Electric

Company

Toshiba became the first company in Japan to create:Fluorescent lamps (1940)Radar (1942)Broadcasting Equipment (1952)Digital Computers (1954)

Toshiba became the first in the world to produce:One megabit DRAM (1985)Laptop Computer, T3100 (1985)

Electronic giantSales of $47.9 billion (1995)Net profit of $447 million (1995)Notebooks and PCs, 52% of sales (1995)

Toshiba produced more than 5 million portable PCS by 1995, as the market for portable PCs was rapidly expanding 19% share of 2.85 million notebook computers

sold in U.S. (1994 Toshiba, Ome Works 1968

50 km west of Tokyo, 860,000 square feet Produced personal computers, word processors,

PC boards.. Research and design labs 2,600 employees (440 direct factory, 1,050

design engineers) Full-time, part-time, temporary, and affiliated

workers

Toshiba is facing the problem of how to seamlessly and successfully add a new product model to an already troubled assembly line process without harming the production of the current product models.

Notebook Assembly Line Production

Current Production Employee Overtime New Model Production

Toshiba can obtain the help of affiliated companies. This could either increase their own production of notebook computers or send workers to Ome to increase Ome’s production.

Toshiba can hire temporary or part-time workers, or have the regular workers work additional overtime.

Toshiba can reevaluate the work load of the entire plant by shifting workers from other areas of the plant.

Assuming the assembly line prototype is implemented as shown in Exhibit 1, calculate the following quantities:

Process capacity: on average, one notebook is assembled every two minutes by 10 line workers (currently station # 2 is a bottleneck 114 sec)

Capacity of the process= capacity of the resource with the longest total time smallest capacity.

Capacity=1/114 sec (the longest activity) Capacity=0.00877 notebooks/sec 0.00877*3600(seconds in one hour)=31.5789

notebooks per hour

- The maximum number of computers that can be produced in a 7.5 hour shift31.5789 notebooks per hour*7.5h=236.842 computers per shift.

- Direct Labor Content per notebook (i.e., the amount of time a worker actually works on the computer while it is on the assembly line.)

110+114+101+107+103+107+108+93+(310-208[software load that does not require operator])+105=1,050 seconds

Direct Labor Idle Time per notebook computer assembled (i.e., the amount of time workers are idle per computer assembled)

(114-110)+(114-114)+(114-101)+(114-107)+

+(114-103)+(114-107)+(114-108)+(114-93)+

+(114-102)+(114-105)==4+0+13+7+11+7+6+21+12+9=90

seconds

Inventory on the assembly line:Flow rate = 0.0087 computers per secWe have 12 spaces on the assembly line

and the assembly line will move to the next station every 114 seconds.

Therefore the flow time is 12 stations*114 seconds =1368

Inventory on the assembly line=flow rate*flow time

Inventory on the assembly line=0.0087*1368=11.9