In: Mechanical Engineering
A kanban system has a rate of delivery, which equals the rate of arrival to the system, of 60 batches in a 10-hr day. Each batch contains 8 parts, and the processing time of a batch is exactly 8 minutes. The time between arrivals is known to have the exponential distribution. Compute the proportion of time the system is busy (?), the lead time, and the WIP (in terms of batches).