DONNER COMPANY CASE STUDY SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT - 2015 Pr. Sam AFLAKI Sophie LABBAN – MSIM 2015 INTRODUCTION The three-year old Donner Company has positioned itself within both the small volume‚ customized printed circuit boards market as well as the large volume printed circuit boards market. With 750 competitors in the US‚ and a market that is volatile‚ Donner’s engineering expertise to anticipate and resolve design problems enabled it to maintain its
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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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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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1. The process flow diagram of the production system at Donner. Preparation Stage Imagine Transfer Fabrication 2. What size orders would you schedule on the CNC drill? On the CNC router? Time taken to process the orders depends on the selected drilling method either a) Manual drilling or CNC OR b) Using CNC Drill Assumption 1: Manual Drilling is not done on all the available Manual Drill Presses in parallel. Calculating time taken for Manual drilling and CNC Drilling: = Setup
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Donner Company started its operations in 1985 and developed specialized capability in manufacturing circuit boards for experimental devices and for pilot production runs. The company uses “Solder mask over Bare Copper” (SMOBC) technology which is a popular technology for denser circuit patterns and more reliable final product. Automated processes as well as manual processes are used to perform medium-duty‚ short-cycle‚ repetitive tasks. They promise a delivery within three weeks for orders less than
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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 company would then
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Donner Company. Yan Anantakusumo Yudistiawan Septima Nurlailia Rizki Setyo P Company History Donner Company‚ started in 1985‚ manufactures printed circuit boards‚ technically called as “soldermask overbare copper” boards It faces a competition from around 750 manufacturers in United States. The firm has developed new processes and application and holds patents for these. Process Order Whenever an order was received‚ price was quoted based on estimations of labor
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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 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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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 for
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