1. Identify the bottleneck or bottlenecks in the process. To identify the bottleneck‚ we need to find out the process capacity and flow rate. Process Num of machine Capacity per machine (bbls/hr) Total capacity (bbls/hr) 1 Truck arrive 8 75bbls/truck 600 2 Dumping 5 600 3000 3 Dry berry holding 16 250 4000 4 Dry/wet berry holding 8 250 2000 5 Wet berry holding 3 400 1200 6 Destoning 3 1500 4500 7 Dechaffing 3 1500 4500 8 Drying 3 200 600
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Operation Red Wing On June 28‚ 2005 The SEAL team‚ led by LT Michael P. Murphy and consisting of petty officers Matthew Axelson‚ Danny Dietz and Marcus Luttrell‚ were on a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah‚ a Taliban leader who commanded a group of insurgents known as the "Mountain Tigers‚" west of Asadabad. The initial counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province‚ Afghanistan seemed to be running accordingly with a successful infiltration into enemy territories until local Goat herders stumbled
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Jennifer Purifoy April 30‚ 2001 Page 1 of 3 Executive Summary for The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The heart of this story is based around the life of Alex Rogo‚ Plant Manager for Uniware a division of Unico. After a very upset customer approaches Alex’s boss‚ Bill Peach‚ he is given an ultimatum to turn the plant around in three months. Due to the limited amount of time available‚ there are not many outside tools available such as consultants‚ surveys‚
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MB0048 –Operations Research- 4 Credits Assignment Set - 1 Q1. a. What do you mean by linear programming problem? Explain the steps involved in linear programming problem formulation? b. A paper mill produces two grades of paper viz.‚ X and Y. Because of raw material restrictions‚ it cannot produce more than 400 tons of grade X paper and 300 tons of grade Y paper in a week. There are 160 production hours in a week. It requires 0.20 and 0.40 hours to produce a ton of grade X and Y papers. The mill
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respect to the company’s goal. The Theory of Constraints focuses on the utilization of the bottleneck machine or machines. In this book bottleneck impedes company’s goal A bottleneck is a resource which is determined when it equals to or less than the market demand placed on it. In other words‚ total capacity or maximum output are blocked by the bottleneck. In the book‚ there are some ways to find out the bottleneck to step in some important manufacturing improvements such as production efficiency‚ throughput
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Report on the book “The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox I really enjoyed this book. It was easy to read and easy to comprehend. The examples used in the book make the main ideas of the book memorable and easy to understand. I loved how the authors described the thinking process of the main character‚ Alex‚ in a day to day every person’s situations. To me the main value of this book is that its main concepts are applicable to every business‚ not just manufacturing facilities. I work in marketing
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business is to make money. --Bottlenecks: The book points out bottlenecks is one process in a chain of processes which is measured and controlled by variations on three measures: throughput‚ inventory and operational expense. And the bottleneck’s speed of production is what determines the speed of the other dependents. We should test quality control before going into the bottleneck because an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost at the whole system. Focused on capacity
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Operation Barbarossa‚ the unparalleled assault that opened an Eastern against the Soviet Union‚ was the largest military offensive in known history‚ and became a turning point in World War II. Following the initial success came slowly formed failures‚ and set the stage for the Soviet Union to repel the largest assault in history‚ turning it into a counter attack with The Red Army’s eyes set on Berlin. The German military‚ widely regarded as the most experienced fighting force in the world‚ was at
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Q.1. What is a linear programming problem ? Discuss the steps and role of linear programming is solving management problems. Discuss and describe the role of liner programming in managerial decision-making bringing out limitations‚ if any. Ans : Linear Programming is a mathematical technique useful for allocation of scarce or limited resources to several competing activities on the basis of given criterion of optimality. The usefulness of linear programming as a tool for optimal decision-making
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This will add a spike to the overtime costs. In 1970‚ approximately 35% of total man-hours were overtime labor. 2. Long wait time for unloading process fruit: the root cause of this issue depends on the throughput of the receiving plant’s operations‚ i.e. destoning‚ dechaffing‚ drying‚ milling‚ bulk loading‚ and bagging. Solutions: 1. To address the issue with skyrocketing overtime costs‚ Mr. Schaeffer should try to understand what is causing workers to be absent more often than expected
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