Roaming Vehicles Company manufactures buggies. Manufacturing a buggy takes 20 units of wood and 1 unit of steel. Scheduled produ
ction of buggies for the next two months is 500 and 600 units, respectively. Beginning inventory is 4,000 units of wood and 30 units of steel. The ending inventory of wood is planned to decrease 500 units in each of the next two months, and the steel inventory is expected to increase 5 units in each of the next two months. How many units of steel are expected in the material inventory at the end of the second month?
Industry 4.0 is used interchangeably with the fourth industrial revolution and represents a new stage in the organization and control of the industrial value chain.
Industry 4.0 has been defined as “a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing and creating the smart factory”.