MGT 455
Operations Management
MGT-455
January 11, 2015
Christian Worldview/Operations Management Integration of Process Strategy
I chose the ethical dilemma of lowering costs for the sake of efficiency. Premium Standard Farms of Princeton Missouri is a pig slaughter house. It has chosen to take pig production into a standard product focused process while the animal is still alive. The standard product focused process has been used in his industry for a hundred years but after the animal is dead( Heizer, J., & Render, B).
The process has the impregnated female sows being held in the breeding pen These small metal stalls are so small that they cannot turn around. They stay in these pens for for 40 days. After impregnation they are then given an ultra sound to verify pregnancy and moved to a similar stall for 67 days until they give birth. Two weeks after giving birth they are transferred back to the breeding room to begin the process again. The female sow is held for three years then slaughtered ( Heizer, J., & Render, B).
Product Focused process is a high-volume, low-variety process. It requires high fixed cost, but low variable costs which in turn create an efficient facility. Typical products produced that use this process are glass, light bulbs and beer ( Heizer, J., & Render, B).
The issue at hand is the ethical treatment of animals. Since animals are gods creatures don’t they deserve to live a respectable life, even if they are being used as a food source?
Millions of pigs are killed for food in the United States every year ( Peta.org). They are raised in extremely crowded, dirty factory farms. Pigs are known to be intelligent social animals. These animals are deprived of natural sunlight and forced to lie in pens too small to move in and have wet, feces-covered floors ( Peta.org).The natual instinct of the animal is to build a cozy nest environment to mate and give birth in as well as nurse the piglets. In the factory farms female sows are moved to
MGT-455
January 11, 2015
Christian Worldview/Operations Management Integration of Process Strategy
I chose the ethical dilemma of lowering costs for the sake of efficiency. Premium Standard Farms of Princeton Missouri is a pig slaughter house. It has chosen to take pig production into a standard product focused process while the animal is still alive. The standard product focused process has been used in his industry for a hundred years but after the animal is dead( Heizer, J., & Render, B).
The process has the impregnated female sows being held in the breeding pen These small metal stalls are so small that they cannot turn around. They stay in these pens for for 40 days. After impregnation they are then given an ultra sound to verify pregnancy and moved to a similar stall for 67 days until they give birth. Two weeks after giving birth they are transferred back to the breeding room to begin the process again. The female sow is held for three years then slaughtered ( Heizer, J., & Render, B).
Product Focused process is a high-volume, low-variety process. It requires high fixed cost, but low variable costs which in turn create an efficient facility. Typical products produced that use this process are glass, light bulbs and beer ( Heizer, J., & Render, B).
The issue at hand is the ethical treatment of animals. Since animals are gods creatures don’t they deserve to live a respectable life, even if they are being used as a food source?
Millions of pigs are killed for food in the United States every year ( Peta.org). They are raised in extremely crowded, dirty factory farms. Pigs are known to be intelligent social animals. These animals are deprived of natural sunlight and forced to lie in pens too small to move in and have wet, feces-covered floors ( Peta.org).The natual instinct of the animal is to build a cozy nest environment to mate and give birth in as well as nurse the piglets. In the factory farms female sows are moved to
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