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Hartley Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners for the defense industry. You have been asked by the owner, Janet Hartley, to reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of analysis, you develop the following data for scanner connectors used in one work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this connector? Daily demand Lead time Safety stock 1,600 connectors 2 days 1.50 days Kanban size 500 connectors Number of kanbans = kanbans (round your response to the nearest whole number).