First Quarter Second Quarter Unit Selling Price $15.00 $17.00 Total Units Sold 12,000 11,500 Labor Hours 10,000 9,500 Labor Cost/Hour $9.00 $10.00 Material Usage (lbs.) 5,000 7,500 Material Cost/lb. $12.00 $10.50 Other Costs $25,000 $30,000 a. Which quarter, first or second, had the higher labor productivity (output quantity per labor dollar input)

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production