Project Management • • • • • Introduction to project management Critical path method (CPM) Crashing Uncertain activity durations Reading: Page 760 – 794 Project • Project: – A special type of process / transformation – A series of related jobs directed toward some major output – Require time and resources – Examples • MS Windows 2000‚ Fund raising‚ Preparation for a private party‚ Building a new airport… The Campus Wedding Reserve Church (1) Church Notice (17) 1 Decorate Church
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Book Summary "The Goal" Processes and Operations Key Idea The main message of the book is that the proper way to manage any operation‚ whether it’s a manufacturing plant or a web design shop or a clothing store‚ is to: 1) Identify what needs to be changed. 2) Identify what it should be changed to. 3) Identify how to execute the change. Summary This story is based around the life of Alex Rogo‚ Plant Manager for Uniware‚ which is a division of Unico. After some very upsetting customer approaches
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INTRODUCTION Much of what managers and supervisors do is solve problems and make decisions. New managers and supervisors‚ in particular‚ often make solve problems and decisions by reacting to them. They are "under the gun"‚ stressed and very short for time. Consequently‚ when they encounter a new problem or decision they must make‚ they react with a decision that seemed to work before. It’s easy with this approach to get stuck in a circle of solving the same problem over and over again. Therefore
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Markets Motorcycles: Overall Two-wheeler sales of Indian players is dominated by the domestic market and‚ within it‚ by motorcycles. After growing at a sharp clip from the late 1990s‚ motorcycle sales witnessed a 7.8% drop in volume in 2007-08‚ due to falling domestic demand as a result of rising interest rates and many private sector banks reducing their retail lending exposures. 2008-09 saw a modest increase in motorcycle sales of 4%‚ driven largely by growth in cash sales. Even so‚ sales of
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A forecast is a statement about the future. Features common to all forecasts 1. The same underlying causal system that existed in the past will continue to exist in the future. 2. Forecasts are rarely perfect; actual results usually differ from predicted values. 3. Forecasts for groups of items tend to be more accurate than forecasts for individual items. Forecast accuracy decreases as the time period covered by the forecast-the time horizon-increases. Steps in the Forecasting Process
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Operations strategy defines how an organisation could manage their resources for its production. People within the operations management play the most important role in a company. They need to be able to manage how to keep or attract customers to their products or services and have a major competitive advantage against their competitors. Lack of competence and skill within this segment can easily lead to failure and loss. To avoid so‚ a manager needs to comply with a certain strategy to stay on
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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 2 (Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems and Solutions 1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain. Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced
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Introduction: Now a days Garments sector is one of the most demandable industries in the world. Most of the countries are related now in Garments sector including Bangladesh. And Bangladesh is competing with others in the world market. There are lots of companies established in Bangladesh for Exporting the Garments products. The Mostafa Garments Industries Ltd. Is one of the Leading company in Bangladesh. They Export there products in America‚ EU countries‚ Japan and Chaina Market. They supply
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expensive in relation to the raw materials (marbles)‚ it would be safe to say that much value was added to the raw materials by the process of manufacturing‚ as a result. Process Design and Layout Given a product with just modules and essentially made from the same base – standard glass lenses‚ the process could be considered as repetitive-focus. Given the raw materials of only marbles‚ the illustration above is the process diagram that will be used. In order to clearly explain the diagram‚ the process
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two ways it can be viewed. Provide an example of each way. Capacity is the capability of a manufacturing or service resource such as a facility‚ process‚ workstation‚ or piece of equipment to accomplish its purpose over a specific time period. Capacity can be viewed at the maximum rate of output per unit of time or as units of resource availability. Automobile plant is an example of capacity at the maximum rate of per unit of time and a hospital is an example of available resources. 2. What are
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