Matt Dillon works for a production facility that makes ball point pens. His job is to place the spring on the central ink insert. He is expected to process 200 inserts per hour. The factory uses a Kanban production system with containers that hold 50 inserts. It takes 30 minutes for Frank to receive the inserts from the previous work station. The factory sets safety stock at 40 percent of demand during lead time. How many Kanbans are needed?

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N = (DT+S)/C = [(200 * ½) + (.4 * 200 * ½)] /50 = 2.8

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