Floor-On, Ltd., operates a line that produces self-adhesive tiles. This line consists of single-machine stations and is almost balanced (i. e. station rates are nearly equal). A manufacturing engineer has estimated the bottleneck rate of the line to be 2,000 cases per 16-hour day and the raw process time to be 30 minutes. The line has averaged 1700 cases per day, and the cycle time has averaged 3.5 hours. What would you estimate the WIP level to be

Robert black, regional manager for ford in texas and oklahoma, faced a dilemma. the ford f-150 pickup truck was the best-selling pickup ever, yet ford's headquarters in detroit had decided to introduce a completely redesigned f-150. how could mr. black sell both trucks at the same time? he still had "old" f-150s in stock. in his advertising, mr. black referred to the new f-150s as follows: "not a better f-150. just the only truck good enough to be the next f-150." this statement represents ford's of the new f-150.