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A dual cord Kanban system needs to be designed for a manufacturing process that has a demand rate of 200 per hour of a certain item. The standard containers designed for the components can hold 25 items. The conveyance time and production time for the components are 30 minutes and one hour respectively. Assume a safety factor of 10%.

(i)   Identify the number of C Kanbans and P  Kanbans required in the system

(ii)  If there is a rounding off involved in arriving at the number of Kanbans in the above case compare the performance of the system when the number is rounded off to the immediate lower and next higher integer.

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