Christopher's cranks uses a machine that can produce 100 cranks per hour. the firm operates 12 hours per day, five days per week. due to regularly scheduled preventive maintenance, the firm expects the machine to be running during approximately 95% of the available time. based on experience with other products, the firm expects to achieve an efficiency level for the cranks of 85%. what is the expected weekly output of cranks for this company? a. 5100 b. 5700 c. 4845 d. 969 e. 6783

Given:

No. of cranks per hour = 85 cranks, since the firm expects to achieve an efficiency level for the cranks

No. of hours in the week = [(12 x 5) x 95%] = 57 hours, since only 95% of the machine running time because of preventive maintenance

Therefore, the expected weekly output of cranks for

this company is = 85 cranks x 57 hours

                          = 4845 cranks (c)

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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