Posted: April 30th, 2016

. What can be said about productivity improvement?

Required:
1. Compute the theoretical and actual velocities per hour
2. Compute the theoretical and actual cycle times (minutes per unit produced)
3. Compute the MCE

4. At the beginning of the year, John Corporation initiated a quality improvement program. The program was successful in reducing scrap and rework costs. To help assess the impact of the quality improvement program, the following data were collected for the current and preceding years:

2007 2008 2009 2010
Reilability engineering 8,000 10,000 15,000 25,000
Quality training 1,000 2,000 5,000 8,000
Packaging inspections 2,000 3,000 5,000 5,000
Product Acceptance 12,000 10,000 8,000 3,000
Rework 30,000 25,000 18,000 12,000
Reinspection 75,000 65,000 48,000 29,000
Customer complaints 100,000 85,000 62,000 51,000
Warranty and Repair 70,000 50,000 40,000 25,000

Required:
a. Prepare a multiple-year trend report for overall costs of quality
b. Prepare a multiple-year trend report for each category of quality costs

5. At the end of 2009, Wilson Company implemented a new labor process and redesigned its product with the expectation that input usage efficiency would increase. Now, at the end of 2010, the president of the company wants an assessment of the changes on the company’s productivity. The data needed for the assessment are as follows:
2009 2010
Output 20,000 24,000
Output prices $20 $20
Materials (lbs.) 16,000 16,800
Materials unit price $6 $8
Labor (hrs.) 10,000 9,600
Labor rate per hour $10 $10
Power (kwh) 4,000 6,000
Price per kwh $2 $3

Required:
a. Compute the partial operational measures for each input for both 2009 and 2010. What can be said about productivity improvement?
b. Prepare an income statement for each year and calculate the total change in profits.
c. Calculate the profit-linked productivity measure for 2010. What c

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