JGT2 Decision Analysis Task 1 A. Recommendations on how to improve current workflow in the Shanghai plant: In this section of the task‚ as the operations consultant of Shuzworld‚ I present my recommendations in detail on how to improve current workflow in the plant of Schuzworld’s Shanghai production facility. As I reached the Shanghai plant‚ I received a warm welcome by the plant’s operating director Mr. Alistair Wu. Wu is responsible for production at all the three facilities in China. His team
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48 units is 10 minutes‚ which is the maximum amount of time each task (workstation) should take in order to meet production goals. Currently Shuzworld uses 8 workstations as follows: Task A requires 10 minutes‚ task B requires 6 minutes‚ task C requires 3 minutes‚ task D requires 8 minutes‚ task E requires 3 minutes‚ task F requires 4 minutes‚ task G requires 3 minutes‚ and task H requires 9 minutes. The predecessors for each task are also listed as follows: B and C follow A‚ D follows B and C‚
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interoffice memorandum to: shanghai management team from: cassandra r gatlin subject: task 2 date: A. Upon reviewing your transportation issues‚ currently‚ the optimal transportations cost are $13‚600 (as seen below). I recommend using the transportation modeling to find the distribution pattern that will meet the availability and the demand with the least amount of shipping costs. Using transportation model we find that the best and optimal warehouse solution based on the information (current
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Catherine Pang showing the layout of the production line‚ the current line uses eight stations. I determined the efficiency by using the following formula: Efficiency = _____________Σ Task times___________________ (actual number of work stations) x (largest cycle time) The total task time for the work boot assembly is 46 minutes. The actual number of work stations is currently 8 and the largest cycle time is 10 minutes. Based on these numbers the assembly line is operating
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GKE1- Task 4 Social Consequences One of the most significant social consequences during the Industrial Revolution was child labor. During the late 1700s up until the Factory Act of 1833‚ children as young as six were working on average 12-14 hours a day in factories for little to no pay. The conditions in factories were deplorable‚ and the child workers were frequently forced to work with dangerous‚ heavy equipment. There were many accidents in these factories that resulted in children being
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Decision Analysis Task 1- Tara Johnson A. In order to improve the current workflow in the plant‚ I recommend using the work stations layout tool whether through the Excel or POM program. This will help to show a clearer picture of the work flow that is present at Shuzworld‚ with allotting equal times in each work station. This will enable the company to find the shortest time to be used in each station for optimal performance and production of all shoes. Decision Analysis has been established to
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Decision Analysis JGT Task 1 Melissa Brooks Western Governors University November 16‚ 2014 A Workflow Crown shoes were founded in 1965‚ and then changed its name to Shuzworld in 1995. It is an established company with stores in 50 stores nationwide. It controls three shoe manufacturing plants in China where they produce their own specialty shoe lines. Shuzworld is experiencing operational challenges in their production factory in Shanghai China. It is important to the success of the China
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BTEC EDEXCEL LEVEL 5 HND IN BUSINESS UNIT 4: MARKET PRINCIPLES DATE: 17/07/2013 Submitted by Elena Diana TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION……………… 3 TASK 1.…………………………. 4 TASK 2.…………………………. 6 TASK 3………………………….. 8 TASK 4………………………….. 11 CONCLUSION…………………. 14 REFERENCES…………………. 15 INTRODUCTION Invented in 1886 by John Pemberton‚ Coca Cola recipe has a long history behind. In this days Coca Cola brand
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Jet2 Task 4 Competition Bikes management decide to retool and now manufacturing both Titanium and CarbonLite Frames bikes. Competition Bikes was using the Traditional based Costing (TBC) method‚ however the Activity Based Costing (ABC) may give more insight to management and helpful in analyzing the per unit costing of the different types of frames and pinpoint the area of improvement. Also the management wants to know the Breakeven point caused by the potential increase of fixed cost by $5‚000 and
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cataloged and compiled with and a mean score for each group. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) would be performed to compare the data between the three groups. Additional analysis utilizing a two-way chi-square formula to determine statistical differences between the variables of the three groups would be required utilizing the appropriate software. Associations between variables would be calculated using contingency coefficient analysis. Minimum statistical power would be set at 0.05 for Type I errors
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