An assembly housing company (like Space4) receives orders to assemble some external house structures. It is currently assembling an average of 25 exteriors every 12 weeks. There are 20 pending assemblies. The sum total of all activities that are required to assemble the exterior is 10 weeks. What is the throughput time of the process?Group of answer choices12 weeks10.5 weeks9.6 weeks8.4 weeks
Question
An assembly housing company (like Space4) receives orders to assemble some external house structures. It is currently assembling an average of 25 exteriors every 12 weeks. There are 20 pending assemblies. The sum total of all activities that are required to assemble the exterior is 10 weeks. What is the throughput time of the process?Group of answer choices12 weeks10.5 weeks9.6 weeks8.4 weeks
Solution
The throughput time of a process is the total time taken from the beginning to the end of that process. In this case, the assembly housing company is assembling an average of 25 exteriors every 12 weeks.
However, the sum total of all activities required to assemble the exterior is 10 weeks. This means that the actual time taken to assemble one exterior is less than the average time.
To find the throughput time, we need to divide the total time taken (12 weeks) by the number of exteriors assembled in that time (25 exteriors).
So, the throughput time is 12 weeks / 25 exteriors = 0.48 weeks per exterior.
However, there are 20 pending assemblies. So, the total throughput time for these 20 assemblies is 20 exteriors * 0.48 weeks per exterior = 9.6 weeks.
Therefore, the throughput time of the process is 9.6 weeks.
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