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You, as the new IE in the new North40 plant for ABC Co., are given the assignmen...

May 2, 2024

You, as the new IE in the new North40 plant for ABC Co., are given the assignment to calculate the direct labor costs for a batch order of 100 pumps. As this is a new plant, all the production workers will be to be new hirees. Therefore, you assume that there will be some learming occuming during the assembly process. So you start your best hiree on the assembly and notice that the 1 assembly takes 50 minutes and that the 2nd one takes only 35 minutes. You also use MTM-2 to estimate the standard time as 10.0 minutes. The base wage is $10.00/hr. a) Find the learning curve for this assembly. b) How many cycles does it take the new hiree to reach the standard time of 10.0 minutes?