ASSIGNMENT No.: 8301490

Group technology and processing cycle efficiency Ray Browns company, Whisper Voice Systems, is trying to increase its processing cycle efficiency (PCE). Because Ray has a very limited budget, he has been searching for a way to increase his PCE by using group technology. One of Rays manufacturing managers, Maria Lopez, has been studying group technology and claims that with minimal cost that includes downtime in the operation, she can rearrange existing machinery and workers and improve PCE. Ray is quite sceptical about this and decides to allow Maria to rearrange a small part of his operation. For Ray to be satisfied, he has stated that PCE must increase by 12%. PCE data before and after the rearrangement is as follows:

TIME CATEGORY BEFORE...