Zachary Harris (#112177795) 11.09.2010 Donner Company FIT Analysis I. Opportunity * Customers: Electronics manufacturers; IBM‚ AT&T‚ Digital Equipment are customers for large orders of simple boards or small orders of prototype boards: Specializes in making circuit boards for experimental devices and pilot production runs * Costs: * Variable costs: raw materials‚ direct labor‚ selling expense * Fixed Costs: manufacturing overhead‚ indirect labor‚ administrative
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Harvard Business School 9-689-030 Rev. December 11‚ 1998 Donner Company In October 1987‚ Edward Plummer‚ president of the Donner Company‚ was reviewing the company’s position prior to planning 1988 operations. The Donner Company manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers. Each board consisted of a thin sheet of insulating material with narrow metal strips (conductors) bonded to its surface. The insulating sheet acted as a structural
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Donner Company Case Analysis Operations Management Indian Institute of Management Bangalore PGSEM 2012 Introduction Donner Company manufactures printed circuit boards (PCB) according to specifications of electronic manufacturers. It is one of the leading PCB manufacturers in United States. It started in 1985. The president of the company‚ Edward Plummer is reviewing the company position in October 1987‚ before deciding on plans for 1988. CNC Vs Manual Drill Decision Rules As per our
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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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DONNER COMPANYOperations Management (Group 9) Ayush Aggarwal 1411348 ayush.aggarwal14@iimb.ernet.in D.K.Harish1411292 dk.harish14@iimb.ernet.in Meenakshi Singh 1411303 meenakshi.singh14@iimb.ernet.in Pavel Gupta 1411315 pavel.gupta14@iimb.ernet.in Suryaansh Makked 1411337 suryaansh.makked14@gmail.com Sachin Gowda M B 1411326 sachin.gowda14@iimb.ernet.in 10/9/2014 INTRODUCTION Donner Company (started in 1985) manufactures printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics
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Central Issues When looking at the Donner Company in 1987‚ there are some initial concerns. The company as a whole does not have a true sense of how long it takes them to do what they do‚ and their process flow table is made up of "guesstimates"‚ as throughput time at individual processes have not been formally taken. The company appears to be operating below capacity based on their need to rework their products often‚ find things for people to do‚ and meet deadlines that are based on fuzzy estimates
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Group Work: The Morrison Company MBA513 Operations Management Team 2 Chong Zhu‚ Ziqing Lin‚ Zifei Wang‚ Xiawei Yang‚ Hugang Guo Part 1 Analysis of Donner Company: The Donner Company manufactured printed circuit boards to the specifications of a variety of electronics manufacturers. It was a production line. Even though in the first stage of manufacturing process‚ the artworks were provided by customers and the company would configure the boards according to customer specifications‚ the
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The Donner Company manufactured printed circuit boards to specificaiton of a variety of electronics manufactures. It produces and sells goods to its customers. While EIIC is an insurance company which focus mainly on engineering insurance. It produces and sells service to customers. Problems for Donner Company: 1. For operation problem‚ there is a production bottleneck exist in company’s operation‚ the shifting bottleneck. The shifting of process changed frequently from one to another in the
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Donner Case Analysis Operations Management Group: Bianca Gonçalves‚ 2422 Diana Santos‚ 1891 Franziska Stalf‚ 2010 Yizhe Zhao‚ 2110 Visual Defects Inspection & Shearing of Laminate Artwork and Computer Control Tapes Generation 20 min 0 min Panel Preparation 20 min 0‚5 min/panel 10 min 0‚5 min/panel Metalization 5 min 0‚2 min/panel 240 min Drill Dry Film Photoresist (DFPR) 29 min Punch Tooling/Location Holes 0‚75 min/panel min Laminate & Curing CNC Drill 16 min/panel 2 min/panel
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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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