AE Manufacturing has 60 machine hours every day.AE Manufacturing two products, A and B.When changing over from producing product B to A, there is no change over time.When changing over from producing product A to B, it takes 8 machine hours.If the previous day ended with producing product B, what is the effective capacity when AE Manufacturing has the following schedule: product A, product B, product A.
A) 60 machine hours per day
B) 56 machine hours per day
C) 44 machine hours per day
D) 52 machine hours per day

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If the previous day ended with producing product B, then on the next day, they will first have to change over from product B to A, which takes no time. Therefore, the effective capacity for producing product A will be 60 machine hours per day.

After producing product A, they will have to change over to B, which takes 8 machine hours. Therefore, for product B, the effective capacity will be 60 - 8 = 52 machine hours per day.

Finally, they will produce product A again, without any changeover time, so their effective capacity will again be 60 machine hours per day.

Therefore, the total effective capacity for the given schedule is 60 + 52 + 60 = 172 machine hours per day.

Thus, the best choice is letter D, which is equal to 52 machine hours per day.

AE Manufacturing Has 60 Machine Hours Every Day