Quality control measures: number of defects 201 179 140 98 number of warranty claims 62 55 46 43 number of customer complaints 118 112 95 74 material control measures: purchase order lead time 10 days 9 days 7 days 5 days scrap as a percent of total cost 1 % 1 % 2 % 3 % machine performance measures: machine downtime as a percentage of availability 5 % 6 % 6 % 10 % use as a percentage of availability 94 % 91 % 88 % 84 % setup time (hours) 10 12 13 14 delivery performance measures: throughput time ? ? ? ? manufacturing cycle efficiency (mce) ? ? ? ? delivery cycle time ? ? ? ? percentage of on-time deliveries 95 % 94 % 91 % 88 %

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Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1