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    Donner Party Case Study

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    Document Study: Donner Party 1. The Donner Party was made up of the Donner brothers‚ George and Jacob‚ along with their wives and children‚ all adding up to 8 people‚ they were the main members. The families set off with another friend‚ John Denton‚ six wagons and two teamsters‚ Noah James and Samuel Shoemaker. The Reeds were another key family and they consisted of James Reed‚ his wife Margaret and their three children. Also travelling with them were: Virginia Reed (Margaret’s daughter from a

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    The Donner Party

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    The Donner Party The Donner Party was a group settlers during the 1800’s that planned on moving West to settle for new life. In hopes of reaching California quickly‚ as they had left late in the season and they decided took a new route. One man that considered himself an expert guide had only traveled this new route. He led them through the Sierra Nevada Mountains by notes he left on the trail for them. This route turned out to be extremely dangerous and cost many people their lives and families

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    Most of us have all heard of the Donner Party. They were the group of traveling families‚ trying to reach the new land. Along the way‚ they were said to have partaken in cannibalism to survive harsh winters. Recent studies are trying to prove if in fact all of the survivors had joined in the cannibalism. If in fact they were all cannibals or not‚ only time and more extensive research can tell. In April of 1846‚ the Donner Party set off from Springfield‚ Illinois in search of a new life and land

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    The Donner Party is a tragic story about eighty-seven people going on a journey leaving only forty-six surviving. The main originator of this group was a man named James Reed. Reed had recently read the book The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California by Landsford W. Hastings who proposed a new shortcut across the Great Basin. This route appealed to travelers because it would save them 350-400 miles on a terrain. However‚ Reed did not know that the Hastings Route had never been tested. The information

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    as individualism‚ futuristic‚ democratic‚ aggressiveness‚ inquisitiveness‚ materialistic‚ expedite‚ pragmatic‚ and optimistic. And perhaps what exemplifies this American personality the most is the story of the Donner Party. When their journey began in 1846‚ the members of the Donner and Reed families had high hopes of reaching California‚ and they would settle at nothing less. Their dream of making a new life for themselves represented great determination. When their packed wagons rolled out

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    Professor Gomez  California Studies 110  15 November 2014    The Journey of the Donner Party  Westward expansion was popular in the 1800’s due to the idea of  the “Manifest  Destiny”. The Manifest Destiny was a political movement that encouraged the people living in  the east to expand westward and establish settlement all throughout the lands of the west. Along  with the many others who wanted to move west‚ the Donner Party too wanted to benefit from the  western lands. Their plan was to move to California

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    Donner Case

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    Donner Company Case Overview Donner Company manufactures printed circuit boards for both large and small companies‚ specializing in experimental devices and for pilot production runs in the late 1980s. The circuit boards that it produces are made from thin sheets of narrow metal strips and insulating material. The process to produce each circuit board is very meticulous and involves many intricate steps. Their process‚ otherwise known as the “soldermask over bare copper” (SMOBC) process includes

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    Donner Case

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    flow of the production system at Donner? Draw a process flow diagram. Question 2: What orders would you schedule on the CNC drill? On CNC router? Operation Setup Time (min) Run Time/board Manual Drill 15 0.08*500 = 40 CNC Drill 240 0.004*500 = 2 Punch Press 50 1 CNC Router 150 0.5 a) CNC Drill vs Manual Drill Let x be order size than – 15 + 40x = 240 + 2x; x = 5.92; From this equation we get x approximately equal to 6. So Donner Company should use the CNC Drill

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    Order Size for drilling: * The Manual press needs 15 min for set up‚ in addition to 0.08 min for every hole. Knowing that the typical circuit board has 500 drilled holes‚ then run time will be 0.08*500 = 40 min / board. Therefore‚ time taken to drill N boards manually will be equal to : 15 + 40(N) * On the other hand the CNC drill needs 240 min for set up‚ in addition to 0.004 min for every hole. So run time will be 0.004*500 = 2 min / board. Then the time taken to drill N boards by CNC drill

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    Donner Company Case

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    Case: Donner Company EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Donner Company is a manufacturer of printed circuit boards. They need to address several issues in their 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

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