Process Improvement Plan Your name OPS/571 June 14‚ 2010 Daryl West Process Improvement Plan The purpose of this paper is to outline the process improvement plan to include the statistical process control identified in week one. To begin‚ I will explain the control limits‚ discuss the effect of seasonal factors and the confidence intervals and their usefulness based on the number of data points. For the past five weeks I have been monitoring and reviewing the process of posting the assignments on
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Analysis of The Goal: Looking Deeper into the Manufacturing and Business Processes Presented At first glance‚ Eliyahu Goldratt’s best-selling business novel‚ The Goal‚ may seem as merely a rudimentary look and introduction to the effectiveness of constraint modeled manufacturing processes; however‚ a thorough analysis of the principles presented through protagonist Alex Rogo’s ongoing plant improvement‚ reveal otherwise. The novel essentially guides the reader through a three step process that consists
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Taylor Miller OPMT 303 9:30am Class FALL 2014 The Goal A peaceful morning for Alex Rogo‚ a plant manager for UniCo Manufacturing‚ is brutally disrupted when Vice President Bill Peach makes an unexpected visit to the plant. The moment Alex walks through the doors he is confronted by frantic employees who inform him about missing customer order number 41427 and an angry Bill Peach waiting in his office. A heated confrontation between Bill Peach and Alex Rogo rises about the overdue order but
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Develop Communication Skills Improvement Goals To get the most from this course‚ we suggest that you write personal goals to improve specific skills in your own interpersonal‚ group‚ and public communication repertoire. Before you can write a goal statement‚ you must first analyze your current communication skills repertoire. After you read each chapter and practice the skills described‚ select one or two skills to work on. Then write down your goal statement in four parts. • 1. State the problem
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at least show some improvements within 90 days to keep it open. Alex ’s primary problem is that his plant can not consistently get a quality product out of the plant on time at the cost that can beat the competition. His plant is losing money and if he cannot make it profitable‚ the management eventually will decide to close the plant. In his fight to save his plant‚ a physician‚ Jonah‚ helps him in achieving his objectives. Alex‚ with the help of Jonah‚ finds that the goal of a manufacturing
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox‚ is a management-oriented business novel. Goldratt is an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru. He is a business consultant known for his Theory of Constraints. The purpose of the novel is to teach the importance of strategic capacity planning and constraint management. The Goal tells the story of Alex Rogo‚ a 38-year-old executive plant manager working at a factory owned by UniCo Corporation Manufacturing
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think one of the biggest things we found was that we didn’t really have a repeatable process that the store would do consistently throughout the day or store to store. The only way we could add new menu items in the way that we had done it was to continually add new processes on top of other processes. It really ended up with a lot of steps‚ it ended up with some very confusing steps and it ended up with a process that wasn’t readily repeatable by the stores on an ongoing basis‚ day to day‚ hour to
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“The Goal” is a book which explains on how to go about attaining goals in real life and business. The Goal provides a convincing tale that challenges the way we look at how we evaluate operational improvement. The author identifies a larger problem where always following the company guidelines and policies in place can limit the mind of its employees. This paper will identify and discuss the essential operational decisions‚ strategies and principles used in the book and lessons learnt from the key
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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt tells the story of Alex Rogo‚ an industrial engineer with an MBA degree. He oversees one of the plants at UniCo Manufacturing Corporation. Alex’s plant is having difficulties in its operations‚ such as late shipments‚ production congestion‚ and lack of inventory. As a result‚ Mr. Peach‚ the VP of the company‚ gave him three months to turn around the plant‚ otherwise it might get shut down. Alex remembers his physics professor‚ Jonah‚ and asks him for advice. The main
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from a previous job. The Goal: It is not until Alex’s job is in jeopardy that he decides to devour into his conversation with Jonah. During the conversation‚ Jonah asks him several questions to analyze his company’s situation. The conversation leads ultimately to the question‚ "What is the goal of any business?" After rethinking his conversation‚ Alex realizes that the goal of any business is to make money. Furthermore‚ if the goal is to make money any action toward this goal is consider productive
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