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LaVilla is a village in the Italian Alps. Given its enormous popularity among Swiss, German, Austrian, and
Italian Skiers, all of its beds are always booked in the winter season and there are, on average, 1200
skiers in the village. On average, skiers stay in LaVilla for 10 days. How many skiers are leaving LaVilla, on
average, per day?
Round the answer to the nearest whole number. - correct answer ✔✔Applying Little's Law,
Flow Rate = Inventory / Flow Time = 1200 skiers / 10 days = 120 skiers per day
Continue with question 1 of LaVilla. When skiers leave LaVilla, they all take the shuttle service to the
closest train station. Right now, the shuttle service has the transportation capacity of 180 customers per
day. The management forecasts that the average length of stay for next season will significantly reduce
to 6 days due to increased hotel and travel costs. Based on your findings of the number of skiers will
leave per day (under this forecast and assuming same beds and fu - correct answer ✔✔Originally, the
flow rate is 120 per day, the implied utilization rate is 120/180 = 67%.
Now, the average flow time changes to 6 days. The average flow rate changes to 1200/6 = 200 skiers per
day. The new implied utilization rate is 200/180 = 111%
Strohrmann, a large-scale bakery in Pennsylvania, is laying out a new production process for their
packaged bread, which they sell to several grocery chains. It takes 12 minutes to bake the bread. How
large an oven is required so that the company is able to produce 4000 units of bread per hour
(measured in the number of units that can be baked simultaneously?) - correct answer ✔✔The bread
needs to be in the oven for 12 minutes (flow time). We want to produce at a flow rate of 4000 breads
per hour, or 4000/60=66.66 breads per minute. According to Little's Law,
Inventory=Flow rate x Flow Time
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LaVilla is a village in the Italian Alps. Given its enormous popularity among Swiss, German, Austrian, and
Italian Skiers, all of its beds are always booked in the winter season and there are, on average, 1200
skiers in the village. On average, skiers stay in LaVilla for 10 days. How many skiers are leaving LaVilla, on
average, per day?
Round the answer to the nearest whole number. - correct answer ✔✔Applying Little's Law,
Flow Rate = Inventory / Flow Time = 1200 skiers / 10 days = 120 skiers per day
Continue with question 1 of LaVilla. When skiers leave LaVilla, they all take the shuttle service to the
closest train station. Right now, the shuttle service has the transportation capacity of 180 customers per
day. The management forecasts that the average length of stay for next season will significantly reduce
to 6 days due to increased hotel and travel costs. Based on your findings of the number of skiers will
leave per day (under this forecast and assuming same beds and fu - correct answer ✔✔Originally, the
flow rate is 120 per day, the implied utilization rate is 120/180 = 67%.
Now, the average flow time changes to 6 days. The average flow rate changes to 1200/6 = 200 skiers per
day. The new implied utilization rate is 200/180 = 111%
Strohrmann, a large-scale bakery in Pennsylvania, is laying out a new production process for their
packaged bread, which they sell to several grocery chains. It takes 12 minutes to bake the bread. How
large an oven is required so that the company is able to produce 4000 units of bread per hour
(measured in the number of units that can be baked simultaneously?) - correct answer ✔✔The bread
needs to be in the oven for 12 minutes (flow time). We want to produce at a flow rate of 4000 breads
per hour, or 4000/60=66.66 breads per minute. According to Little's Law,
Inventory=Flow rate x Flow Time
