Eastern Gear 1. What are the major problems being faced by Eastern Gear? The major problem’s Eastern Gear is facing is that they are accepting large orders to help pay their overhead‚ also‚ their sales group is not part of the business‚ there is no link between them and manufacturing. Their order entry is inefficient; the tolerance on products is not firm. The layout of their shop is set up to make mistakes and increased lead time has resulted in the need for an expeditor. Lastly‚ they are
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Eastern Gear Week Three Case Study Eastern Gear‚ Inc. Case Study 1. What are the major problems being faced by Eastern Gear? Eastern Gear is a manufacturing company that sells customized gears to their clients. Since the company’s operations began‚ it faces many problems; one of which results from the inconvenience of having a customer base consisting of small laboratories and manufacturers. This makes it so that a gear‚ once customized and sold‚ is rarely sold a second time (Schroeder‚ Goldstein
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Case: Eastern Gear‚ Inc. Q1. (Major problems) * Gears in most orders are small. The exact same gear is rarely ordered more than once. * Some deliveries of small orders are too late because of it took a long time before they were being produced. * Production sometimes has to be stopped because raw materials are not available or the design has still have to be clarified. (orders are not clear enough) * Production time is pretty high and therefore it is difficult to get the orders
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Summary The purpose of this report is to assist the production process of Eastern Gear‚ Inc. and increase the profitability of the company. Immediately after picking up large orders‚ Eastern Gear doubled their profit in the last quarter. However‚ there are some negative implications of this change in their strategy and it has caused their business to suffer. There has been some degradation in their production process‚ including increased production time and poor production quality. According to
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Eastern Gear‚ Inc. Is a manufacturer of custom-made gears located in Philadelphia and founded by Roger Rhodes. This company is having troubles shipping its orders on time due to large orders‚ the waste of movement taking the gears throughout the operations‚ changes requested by the customer after the order has been placed‚ no workflow is utilized and poor quality. The company has a total workforce of 50 employees‚ who are highly skilled or semiskilled; this proves that the company can make a high
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Eastern Gear Case Study Eastern gear is suffering from many deficiencies. The company operates as a job shop style and this is inefficient to begin with. There are too many desks to cross to get material ordered and products rushed. There is a lot of wasted time with WIP sitting at work stations. The process design of the shop is inefficient. They also are lacking an organized quality control program. This has resulted in the doubling of production times and a six percent return rate on orders
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1.0 Introduction Eastern gear Inc. is a manufacturer of custom made gears ranging in weight from a few ounces to over 50 pounds. The gears are made of different metals depending on the customer’s requirements. Eastern gear sells its products primarily to engineering research and development laboratories or very small manufacturers. The president of Eastern Gear decided to accept a few larger orders for 100 gears or more. Although lower prices were accepted on these orders‚ they helped pay the
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Topic Outline 1. Introduction (Gear terminologies‚ definitions and identifying the parts) (Identifying the types of gears) (Gear applications or uses) 2. Body (History of gears) (Gear calculations or formula) (Materials for manufacturing gears) 3. Conclusion (Advantages of gears in the industry) (Advantages of gears compare to other drive mechanism) 4. References 5. Thesis Statement: Gears are important in the mechanical fields and industries
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Mayuram Module 2- GEARS Lecture – 11 HELICAL GEARS Contents 11.1 Helical gears – an introduction 11.2 Helical gears – Kinematics 11.3 Helical gears – geometry and nomenclature 11.4 Helical gears – force analysis 11.5 Helical gears – bending stress 11.6 Helical gears – contact stress 11.7 Crossed helical gears 11.7.1 Tips for crossed helical gear design 11.1 HELICAL GEARS – an introduction In spur gears Fig.11.1 dealt earlier‚ the teeth are parallel to the axis whereas in helical gears Fig.11.2 the teeth
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TUTORIAL – GEAR SYSTEMS This work covers elements of the syllabus for the Edexcel module 21722P HNC/D Mechanical Principles OUTCOME 3. On completion of this short tutorial you should be able to do the following. • Describe the different types of gear systems. • Describe a simple gear train. • Describe a compound gear rain. • Describe three types of epicyclic gear boxes • Solve gear box ratios. • Calculate the input and outputs speeds and torques of gear boxes.
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