a) Manufacturing operations and their process types can be located along avolume/variety continuum. Provide a suitable 'process type' which would fitin the following positions and give an example where it

might be used? i)High volume low variety ii)Low volume high variety b) What are kanban systems? why are they used? and how are they controlled? c) Calculate the capacity of the Kanbans and the inventory level given the following information: Utilisation rate R =900/hr//////Delay time T= 40mins////Number of Kanbans = 4//////Operation Variation X = 10% d) The following options have been proposed to reduce the inventory level for the situation outlined in (Q4b). Option A: Capacity C is increased to 400 units3 Option B: X becomes 20% or Option C: The delay time Tis halved orWhich option would you choose and why?