Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Course Outline Course Title : Service Operations Management (SOM) Course Code : SM05-06 Credits : 2 Term : Quarter-II (25 March- 30 June 2013) Year : 2013-14 Faculty : Prof. S. Venkataramanaiah __________________________________________________________________________ Introduction & Objective(s): Manufacturing‚ service and agriculture are the major economic activities in any country. In India‚ manufacturing and services together constitute nearly 75% of
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What started the 20th century was the Model T. The Ford Motoring company was founded in 1902 by Henry Ford. By 1908 he showed the world a car that was going to change motoring industry forever. 1908 was the year of the Model T‚ the next great technology advancement. There are people out there that say Henry Ford was not the inventor of the first car‚ what my research has shown me is that a man named Karl Benz would have to disagree. Henry Ford changed the world with the Model T. Changed how people
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Section 1 (Strategy)-Page 37‚38‚39 QUSETION 1 Average monthly productivity (units/hour) for the month of: |MONTHS |PRODUCTIVITY | |January |2300 / (325*3) = 2.36 | |February |1800/ (200*5) = 1.80 | |March |2800/ (400*4) = 1.75 | |April |3000/ (320*4) = 2.34 | Average Monthly Productivity= (2.36+1.80+1.75+2.34)/4 = 2.06 QUESTION 2 Productivity = sales
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Holly Farm In 2003‚ Charles and Gillian Giles decided to open up their farm to the paying public‚ in response to diminishing profits from their milk and cereal activities. They invested all their savings into building a 40 space car park and an area with spaces for 40 seater buses‚ a safe viewing area for the milking parlour‚ special trailers for passengers to be transported around the farm on guided tours‚ a permanent exhibition of equipment‚ a rare breads paddock‚ a children’s adventure playground
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Q1: A manufacturer’s average work-in-process inventory for a certain part is 1‚000 units. The workstation produces this part at the rate of 200 units per day. What is the average time a unit spends at this workstation? Inventory‚ ‚ Throughput‚ . Thus‚ Flow time‚ . A unit spends an average time of 5 days at this workstation. Q2: The Wilcox Student Health Center has just implemented a new computer system and service process to “improve efficiency.” As pharmacy manager‚ you are concerned
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Question 2. Henry Ford the great automaker changed not only the process of making a car but also the lifestyle of his workers. Henry Ford changed the working class lifestyle from one that encouraged drinking‚ socializing‚ not saving money to one closer related to the middle class lifestyle of that period. He achieved this by the use of the $5 day and the rules one had to follow in order to qualify for it. Henry Ford had a problem. Workers hated to work in his assembly line and the turnover
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Henry Ford was an American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1905. Three years later Ford introduced the Ford Model T car in 1908 and then went on to develop the assembly line mode of production‚ which revolutionized the industry. Henry Ford did not invent the automobile‚ but he did develop the techniques of production and marketing that brought it within the reach of ordinary Americans. One of Henry Ford’s assembly lines employ about 13‚000 men‚ making more jobs available for people
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I’m gonna be writing about why i think Henry Ford was the most important out of all the men who built america. I’m gonna write things that he has done with cars and if he hadn’t of done were we would be now in life without cars and why he is so famous for his cars. Henry Ford was born in 1893 and was the first surviving son of William and Mary Ford. When he became the age of 16 he left his hometown Dearborn‚Michigan to go to Detroit to go to school to be a machinist. When he became a machinist he
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someone who arose just as fast and made a life and name for himself. Henry Ford is the man behind these words. He had changed our modern world and put us all one step closer to a more advanced and sophisticated world. Henry Ford was a pioneer of ambition through his industrious‚ creative‚ and everlasting life. Born July 30‚ 1863 near Dearborn‚ Michigan‚ Henry Ford was all too young to know what he had to show the world (“Henry Ford”). As a thirteen-year-old
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myomlab.com. ❯ ● Operations management is the activity of managing the resources which are devoted to the creation and delivery of services and products. It is one of the core functions of any business‚ although it may not be called operations management in some industries. ● Operations management is concerned with managing processes. And all processes have internal customers and suppliers. But all management functions also have processes. Therefore‚ operations management has relevance for all
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