ohanna Lucy makes wooden boxes in which to ship motorcycles. Lucy and her three employees invest a total of 30
hours per day making the 200
boxes.
Part 2
a) Their productivity
boxes/hour. (Round your response to two decimal places.)
Part 3
Lucy and her employees have discussed redesigning the process to improve efficiency. Suppose they can increase the rate to 300
boxes per day.
b) Their new productivity equals
boxes/hour. (Round your response to two decimal places.)
Part 5
c) The unit increase in productivity is enter your response here
boxes/hour. (Round your response to two decimal places.)
Part 6
d) The percentage increase in productivity is enter your response here
%.
(Enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.)
Riverside Metal Works produces cast bronze valves on a 12
-person
assembly line. On a recent day, 200
valves were produced during
6
-hour
shift.
Part 2
a) Labour productivity
of the line
valves/labour hour. (Round your response to two decimal places.)
Part 3
b) The manager at Riverside changed the layout and was able to increase production
to 220
units per 6
-hour
shift. The new labour productivity equals
valves/labour hour. (Round your response to two decimal places.)
Part 4
c) The percentage of productivity increase equals
enter your response here%.
(Round your response to one decimal place.)