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The Cute Corporation produces small plastic dolls in its Florida manufacturing plant

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The Cute Corporation produces small plastic dolls in its Florida manufacturing plant. The company is currently evaluating ways to improve productivity. The accountant of the firm's parent organization suggested that management implement a new compensation plan based on throughput performance measure as an incentive to increase productivity. To demonstrate how such a measure might work, the accountant gathered the following production data for a recent month: Total units attempted 6,000,000 Good units manufactured 4,800,000 Processing time (total hours)      800 Value-added processing      600

Required:

1. How many defective units were produced? 

2. Can you compute manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE). 

3. Can you compute process productivity. 

4. Can you compute process quality yield. 

5. Can you compute hourly throughput.