Process Design for Riordan Manufacturing OPS/571 Riordian Manufacturing‚ Inc. Hangzhou‚ China June 21‚ 2012 Motor‚ Inc. 1000 Last Class Flint‚ MI 900012 Dear CEO: At Riordan‚ the electric fan division has revised the process for supplying the electric fans. Part of Riordan’s operations planning‚ Riordan would implement aggregate operations. From Operations Management for Competitive Advantage (2006)‚ “Aggregate operations planning involves translating annual
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OPS FINAL EXAM 1- IS WHEN THE ACTIVITIES IN THE STAGE MUST STOP BECAUSE THERE IS NO PLACE TO DEPOSIT THE ITEM JUST COMPLETED? A- BLOCKING 2- ACCORDING TO YOUR TEXT‚ THE MOST COMMON PROCESS METRIC IS A- UTILIZATION 3- DECLINING PRODUCT PRICES A- INCREASE THE BREAK-EVEN POINT 4- THE TYPE OF PROCESSING STRUCTURE THAT IS USED FOR PRODUCING DISCRETE PRODUCTS AT A CONTROLLED RATE IS A- ASSEMBLY LINE 5- THE BEST PROCESS FLOW STRUCTURE
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What is the net result of reducing the duration of a task (crashing) not on the critical path? A. Decreased project overhead costs B. Reduced likelihood of liquidated damages for late delivery C. Increased slack time associated with the task D. Reduction in the project duration 12) The idea of the value density calculation is: A. finding a carrier that can handle the weight B. matching the weight of the product with an appropriate carrier C. deciding where items should
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Week 5- Process Improvement Plan Tricshone Jiles OPS 571 April 4‚ 2012 Professor Holly Hickman Overview Process control is a major factor in ensuring that a process is working to its maximum potential. Sometimes process control means that one must conduct research to see how a process improvement can be implemented. Process improvement normally results in adjusting and modifying particular tasks or steps in a process to make them run more efficiently and smoothly. According to
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In the file OPS 571 Week 5 Summary you can find overview of the week 5 studies conclusion Discuss the objectives for 5 weeks. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with‚ any topics you struggled with‚ and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field. Write a 350- to 1‚050-word summary of the team’s discussion. Business - Management Process Design Matrix and Summary Complete the Process Design Matrix. Write an executive summary
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costs and more efficiently match demand for make to stock and make to order options. Supply Chain Flow Chart . Metrics and Supplier Relations Riordan is able to keep the cost of production minimal while preserving the value of the final product by purchasing the electric fan motors from a third party and assembling the rest of the product in house with adequately trained Chinese workers. Placing the manufacturing plant in China rather than the United States is also a good cost effective
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distributing over the four weeks in each month‚ we have 30 per week in June and 40 per week in July. Now‚ suppose that there are currently 64 pumps in inventory and there are customer orders that have been committed and must be filled. These inputs result in the following table. Next‚ we need to use this information to determine projected inventory‚ master production schedule (MPS)‚ and ATP. If no production is planed‚ projected inventory becomes negative from week 3. This is a signal that
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In the work OPS 571 Week 1 Summary you can find conclusion of the week 1 studies Discuss the objectives for 5 weeks. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with‚ any topics you struggled with‚ and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field. Write a 350- to 1‚050-word summary of the team’s discussion. Business - Management Process Design Matrix and Summary Complete the Process Design Matrix. Write an executive summary
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Week 1 OPS 571 Quiz 1 Permeable systems are characterized by being penetrable by customers via what two forms of contact? Internet and mail contact Face-to-face and internet contact Internet and phone contact Phone and face-to-face contact Check Answer Correct Permeable systems are penetrable by phone and face-to-face contact‚ but they are not necessarily reactive to such contact. 2 Some may argue that the production-line approach may not treat the process as a service process‚ but as what type
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Flowchart for a Process Paper Operations Management 571 August 28‚ 2010 Flowchart Process There are multiple processes that we do in our daily lives that we would like to take a short amount of time to complete it. "A process is any part of an organization that takes inputs and transforms them into outputs that‚ it is hoped‚ are of greater value to the organization than the original inputs" (Chase‚ Jacobs‚ Aquilano‚ 2006‚ p. 154). Flowcharts are easy-to-understand by demonstrating step-by-step
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