Executive Shirts Company Case Solution and Case Study

Operations : Executive Shirts Company Assignment and Case Solution

Show details of calculations and answers todescriptive questions on pages 2 to 8 of this handout. Also, please fill in numericalanswers for the questions in the table below. In this calculation some of them will be rounded.CT means Cycle Time

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Question	Answer [explained below]
(A)  Regular Shirts
Theoretical CT for Cutting Operation with L of 60	0.25 minutes
Theoretical CT for Cutting Operation with L of 10	0.56 minutes
Labor Content in Cutting per shirt with L = 10	2.25 minutes
Theoretical CT for Process with L = 60	0.50 min./shirt
Daily Process Capacity with L = 60	960 shirts
Average MLT for the process with current rate  of 800 per day -- Minutes	7056 minutes
Average MLT for the process with current rate  of 800 per day -- Days	14.7 days
Average Labor utilization for the process with current rate of 800/day	69%  (0.69)
( C ) Mike’s Plan
Daily Capacity of the new ply machine	960 shirts
Average MLT for a shirt given 900 shirts per day	2.2 days
Average Labor Utilization with current rate of 900/day	83%  (0.83)
( D ) Iike’s Plan
Daily process capacity for regular shirts	720 shirts/day
Daily process capacity for custom shirts	123 shirts/day
MLT for custom Line given 100/day	230.40 minutes
Labor utilization for Custom Line given 100/day	34%  (0.34)

Executive ShirtsCompany Assignment: Detailed Calculations and Answers

(A)  Regular Shirts:

I.       CurrentCutting Operation (Exbt. 2)

         1.   60 layers of cloth (“L=60”)

               Patternsfor 8 shirts (8 shirts per layer)

         Cuttingtakes: (1.5x L + 30) minutes for L layers

         Numberof shirts in L layers =  8L shirts 

  

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