Case: IRON ORE COMPANY OF ONTARIO ASSIGNMENT: 1. Where are the bottlenecks in IOCO’s operation? 2. How should IOCO deploy its shovels? 3. Should IOCO stockpile ore? When? How much? Case: Dynatrol Corporation: Andover Assembly Division ASSIGNMENT: 1. What are the most urgent problems confronting Jan Havel at the Andover Assembly Plant? 2. What sequence of actions would you recommend to address them? 3. How difficult will it be to "sell" your actions to Murphy
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The Goal: A Process of on – going Improvement (Summary) Alex Rogo is the plant manager of Unico’s Bearington plant. Clearly he has problems in his plant as is evident in the surprise visit he got from the vice – president of his division‚ Bill Peach. Peach came to expedite an order (No. 41427)‚ which he wanted to be shipped that day. Alex is given three months to turn around his unprofitable plant or else face a shut – down. The order is shipped at the end of the day‚ although there was a breakdown
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Operations Management Great Northern Bunk Beds‚ Inc. Introduction Deciding whether to invest or not is a complicated task for today’s companies. Managers need to make thorough studies‚ analysing additional costs and revenues‚ in order to be able to make the most reasonable decision. A big investment implies a great expenditure and‚ generally‚ a late return. If a company does not consider thoroughly the requirements and the outcomes of a particular investment‚ the organization may suffer
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President of GF has been directed to decrease loan processing time to 10 days or less with the current staff she has. The current structure of the analysis and evaluation stage does not maximize staff time effectively and as a consequence creates a bottleneck in the process. We recommend switching to a case manager structure. lLan applications can be processed and completed in approximately 3 days. This would allow for an increase in volume to 255 without adding staff (assuming 60% are remain new applications)
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Competitive Advantages n n n What are the bottlenecks? mix (6) spoon (2) load (1) bake(9) cool (5) pack (2) pay (1) Resource Activity You mix spoon Oven bake R-mate oven load packing payment Time 6 min 2 min 10 min 1 min 2 min 1 min 1 Doz. 7.5 6 15 2 Doz. 12 6 17.14 3 Doz. 15 6 18 QUESTIONS: • Who is the bottleneck for 1 Doz. orders? • Who is the bottleneck for 2 Doz. orders? • Who is the bottleneck for 3 Doz. orders? How should we price the cookies?
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factors. The current plant model is developed using Arena Simulation software and the current capacity is assessed. It is found that the current capacity does not meet the forecasted demand. Therefore‚ Bottleneck processes are identified and improvements are suggested to eliminate the bottlenecks in order to meet the forecasted demand. Keywords— Capacity Analysis‚ Simulation‚ Arena‚ Manufacturing‚ Capacity Improvement I. Introduction As the twenty first century begins‚ the global marketplace
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Constraints OPS/571 - Operations Management August 11‚ 2012 Week Three Individual Assignment - Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints Bottlenecks slow down or hold back by creating an obstruction in the process. The review of measuring tools and metrics can clearly identify areas for improvement. After collecting data for the month of June the obvious bottleneck in the Nonconformance Corrective Action Report (NCAR) process was identified as the failure to investigate and provide an answer to the
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supply chain operations to improve their service level because net income in the month of September has drastically decreased. Before September‚ growth was steadily increasing every month. They found that the major problems include unpredictable bottlenecks in manufacturing‚ lower than expected productivity and lower than expected quality and delivery. After addressing these major issues‚ I find that investing in more CNC’s and phasing manual drilling out of the manufacturing process can go a long
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Bottleneck Analysis‚ Without Knowing It “Almost every organization today faces the challenge of resource shortages. There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of good ideas for projects‚ but there is significant pressure to complete projects to get products into the marketplace as quickly as possible. As a result‚ most organizations find themselves working on a large number of projects concurrently and trying to manage their limited resources across all the projects in their portfolio.” This excerpt
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the utilization‚ queue size for each machine‚ checked the revenue‚ completed jobs and lead time data. We noticed that on Day 40‚ Day42‚ and Day 44‚ machine in station 1 has the utilization more than 90% which means station 1 is a bottleneck. After identifying the bottleneck‚ We decided to purchase machine in station 1 first on Day 51 to see how this modification action would affect the factory operation. Decision analysis—Actions & Analysis Overall‚ we watched on our factory diligently‚ every few
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