Production & Operations Management–Homework 1 for Section 4 Due Tuesday October 16‚ 2012 1.1 Eastman publishing Company is considering publishing a paperback textbook on spreadsheet applications for business. The fixed cost of manuscript preparation‚ textbook design‚ and production setup is estimated to be $80‚000. Variable production and material costs are estimated to be $3 per book. Demand over the life of the book is estimated to be 4‚000 copies. The publisher plans to sell the text to college
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Master Production Plan A Master Production Schedule (MPS) is a plan for individual commodities to produce in each time period such as production‚ staffing‚ inventory‚ etc. It is usually linked to manufacturing where the plan indicates when and how much of each product will be demanded. The plan quantifies significant process parts and other resources in order to optimize production‚ to identify bottlenecks‚ and to anticipate needs and completed goods. Since MPS drive much factory activity‚ its
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Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) The Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) is used to show the economic concepts of scarcity‚ choices and opportunity cost. The PPC is a graphical representation showing maximum combinations of output (goods and services)‚ a nation can produce with limited economic resources in a fixed period time. Assumptions of the production possibilities curve: I. Only 2 goods will be illustrated II. The amount of resources is fixed III. State of technology
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The “treadmill of production” model (Schnaiberg and Gould 1995) suggests that nature and natural resources will be intensively exploited by economic interests which will resist the imposition of environmental protection for regulations‚ because it seriously inhibits their operations or reduce their profits and will be supported by political elites dependent on growth and revenue generated by these economic interests. Some of the reasons why states’ policies of building dams are similar: a perceived
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What is intensive plant production? Well it is formally known as intensive agriculture. It is an ‘Agricultural production system characterised by the high inputs of capital or labour relative to land area’ [http://www.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/92619/Yan_PPS_Workshop.pdf]. It mainly focuses on produces with the highest amount of value. Around the world‚ intensive agriculture is needed and in the entire generality of agriculture‚ intensive agriculture takes up about 37%‚ specialising in
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Considering the production of maize and shirts in Botswana‚ we can use the notion of the production possibilities curves to determine levels of efficiency‚ inefficiency‚ economic growth and technological improvement. The production possibilities curve (PPC) is a graph that shows the different quantities of the two goods (in this case‚ maize and shirts) that an economy (Botswana) could efficiently produce with the limited productive resources. To be able to illustrate this simply we assume that
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Over the past years‚ theatre production has become more and more unpopular. In our world today‚ staying home and watching a movie is more common. People nowadays want to save money and just stay home. The technology that is now used for home theatre systems is unbeatable. Theatre and most performing arts will struggle because of the technology our world is improving on every day. The technology we have today could potentially end all theatre and performing arts. If people are not attending plays
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COURSE: MAPM SUB : Apparel Production Development Marks 15 01) Compare the number of SKUs for product lines using sizing systems for men’s dress shirts with collar and sleeve length and men’s sport shirts sizes small ‚ medium ‚ and large . Compare SKUs for lines of man’s pants sized by waist and length for lines of mans paint sized by waist and length and missy pants sizes 8 to 16. Why is the number of SKUs in a product line an issue? Marks 20 02)
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for months. Although the plant was Ericsson’s sole supplier of chips for use in its cell phones‚ the company responded slowly to the problem and then found itself unable to secure an alternate source for the chips. Without the chips‚ the Swedish company was unable to keep up with the demand for its products‚ and ended up losing more than $2 billion in connection with the incident. In October 2001‚ less than two years after the fire‚ Ericsson cut its cellphone business exposure by entering into a joint
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