IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE WITHIN A PRODUCTION PLANT INITIALS SURNAME STUDENT NO PS XXXXX 2008YYYY RESEARCH PROPOSAL Submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of B/TECH (OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT) In the DEPARTMENT OF QUALITY AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT At the UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG SUPERVISOR: A. Vermuleun October 2007 JOHANNESBURG TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Page 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Problem formulation
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The marketing strategy is supposed to show the long term direction and scope of the company with stakeholders and the environment in mind. In a fast changing industry there is a big challenge to create a long term strategy. There can be a lot of factors changing in the short run that cannot be foreseen. (Johnson‚ Scholes and Whittington‚ 2007). How should the company design their marketing strategy to be usable in the long run? There are different differentiation strategies for the company to choose
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reflects American process innovation‚ making mass produced food of the same quality nationwide. Ray Croc‚ Colonel Sanders‚ and Dave are American entrepreneurial icons for their contributions to the fast food industry. Recently these giants have been losing market share to a new segment that caters to the health conscious crowd. Such firms in this segment are Pita Pit‚ Subway‚ and on the Golden Coast Wrap It Up. Wrap It Up is a relatively new concept firm to the fast food market. This company is located
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Optimal alarm sound design: New design process for noticeable‚ but pleasant sounds Author 193 Track 3: what the beep? ABSTRACT The goal of this research is improving alarm sound design‚ focusing on the paradox of noticeable versus pleasant sounds. The characteristics of annoying sounds correspond in large extend to the characteristics of noticeable sounds. Therefore it is difficult to design an alarm sound‚ which is noticeable‚ but not annoying. A lot of studies are conducted along aspects
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Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing‚ China Blo Jo University of Phoenix-Houston Campus Operations Management OPS/571 Dr. Alex Kadrie February 18‚ 2010 Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing‚ China The Riordan Manufacturing Plant in Hangzhou‚ China as part of their relocation effort‚ have undertaken an intense operation to modernize and upgrade the manufacturing process for the electric fans. An analysis of the manufacturing processes indicated roadblocks and loopholes in the system
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Bakar Abdul Hamid Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rohaizat Baharun Dr. Huam Hon Tat Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development Universiti Teknologi Malaysia E-mail: indasukati@utm.my Fazila Said Malaysia Nuclear Agency Malaysia ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to present the relationship between supply chain management (SCM) practices and supply chain responsiveness (SCR)‚ and investigates its relationship with competitive advantage (CA). The data collection instrument used was a questionnaire
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Value Chain Analysis Series No. 3 Value Chain Based Approach to Micro-Enterprise Development Value Chain Analysis-Incense Sticks Micro-Enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP) (MEDEP-NEP/08/006) Dhobighat‚ Lalitpur December 2010 Foreword The Micro-Enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP) is a nationally executed project implemented by Ministry of Industry (MOI) with the technical and financial supports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The programme is funded
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Apple Inc. Process Designs and Supply Chains‚ Pt. 2 Juanita Askew OPS/571 April 13‚ 2015 Malcolm Shannon 1 Introduction Apple Inc.‚ will evaluate their Internal process from their previous week. This would be beneficial to the organization because they will get the opportunity to improve in areas that they are lacking in. Therefore‚ Apple will provide the following: Effective & efficient data What was done to improve their processing method; (VCA process) Apple will present a flow chart
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PROCESS CHOICE Characteristics of project‚ jobbing‚ batch‚ flow‚ and process production systems‚ with examples for each. Project‚ jobbing‚ batch‚ flow and process production are the process types used in manufacturing. The figure below shows the trade off between volume and variety of outputs. In choosing one of these systems‚ high volume means low variety and high variety means low volume. (see figure 1) Project processes - The essence of project processes is that they are all different‚ so
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a political and economic anachronism. Twenty-five years ago the establishment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was the official U.S. response to the worldwide process of decolonization. It was the "showcase of democracy" for colonial peoples and underdeveloped countries‚ the U.S. model of how a country could pull itself out of poverty "by its own bootstraps" through an intimate political and economic relationship with the United States. By 1977‚ the Commonwealth of Puerto
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