Psy 315 Week 8 Final Project Case Study

Increasing the yield to 85.2% will decrease the loss for the clear glass by $1,647.51 per month and reduce the loss of $2,417.04 per month for the LoĒ² 272. This slight increase can in yield can go a long way to increasing yearly profits. Through observation and yield versus lites per sheet the best ways to increase the yield are to try to eliminate the need for recuts, this is easier said than done with any number of problems that happen along the line for window assembly. With focusing on increasing the yields for the clear and the LoĒ² 272 we start with, Always have the WIN 3i system pulling from the maximum set of jobs allowed. There are times towards the end of the day or week when new orders do not get entered into the system and the amount of jobs to pull from decrease this also decreases the yield because the system is unable to fill empty spots from jobs down the queue. Another reason for there being less jobs is that there is not more orders to put in, in this case the supervisor will have to work with the plant supervisor to see how long they can hold off cutting the pieces until more orders come in to fill the queue.
Rush orders are not something that can be eliminated fully but the use of the rush function can be dropped to once day if at all possible or just adding it in as a recut and let the system get to it in due time. The last way that increasing yields can be accomplished and maybe even increasing it to the full 90% target when applied with the other suggestions is to use larger sheets of glass allowing more lites to fit onto it, there are two downsides to this method, during any slow times it can reduce the yield, and the need for a new glass cutting machine to be able to handle the larger glass