Albro Corporation keeps careful track of the time required to fill orders. The times recorded for a particular order appear below:
-The manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) was closest to:
A) 0.05
B) 0.57
C) 0.14
D) 0.16

Question

Albro Corporation keeps careful track of the time required to fill orders. The times recorded for a particular order appear below: 
-The manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) was closest to:
A) 0.05 
B) 0.57 
C) 0.14 
D) 0.16

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

To calculate the Manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE), we need to divide the actual time spent working on the product by the total time including waiting and processing.

In this case, we do not have information about waiting and processing time, so we can only use the actual time spent working on the product, which is the sum of the times recorded for the order.

Sum of recorded times = 11 + 58 + 75 + 87 + 69 = 300 minutes

Therefore, MCE = Actual time spent working / Total time including waiting and processing.

Since we do not know the waiting and processing time, we cannot calculate the total time, and so we cannot determine the exact MCE value. However, we can conclude that MCE will be less than 1, as there is always some amount of waiting and processing time.

Option C has the closest value to the MCE.

Albro Corporation Keeps Careful Track of the Time Required to Fill