QUIZ 2 IN MGT05: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT 1) Which of the following statements regarding Bechtel is true? A) Its competitive advantage is project management. B) Bechtel was the construction contractor for the Hoover Dam. C) While helping to rebuild Iraq‚ Bechtel’s crews had to travel under armed escort. D) Bechtel’s procurement program is global in nature. E) All of the above are true. 2) Which of the following statements about Bechtel is true? A) Even though Bechtel
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1. Demonstrate the usage of quality concept by explaining the impact of quality on the business performance of this organisation. Your discussion shall address the following aspects: (a) Describe the business operation and service provided by the organisation. H&M was founded in 1947 by Erling Persson‚ now it is a global fashion brand. Today the H&M offers fashion for everyone under the banner of H&M groups. They currently have over 3200 stores in over 54 markets around the globe and employed
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UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Department of Informatics in collaboration with OSLO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Department of Computer Science MASTER THESIS ADMINISTRATION OF REMOTE COMPUTER NETWORKS Stig Jarle Fjeldbo May 23‚ 2005 Abstract Today’s computer networks have gone from typically being a small local area network‚ to wide area networks‚ where users and servers are interconnected with each other from all over the world. This development has gradually expanded as bandwidth has become
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underlying‚ cause of an identified problem or a symptom of a problem. Example: a mail-order catalogue company addresses the problem of insufficient profitability • cost of non-conformance: cost of waste produced • Too much scrap 6 Fishbone Diagram of Root Causes 7 Pareto Chart of Root Causes Quality data demonstrates that many root causes are simply not worth fixing. A replacement of the existing sales order entry system can be at least a partial solution to the problem of too much scrap. 8 Unfolding
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Total …… Quality…… Management…… Presentation slides by Dr Anjan Ghosh ….. ……VP-TQM Exide SXC-Logistics & Supply Chain Management March -April 2013 External Developments in last 40 years that has changed the Business Environment • Customers have taken charge – buyers market ‚ diverse customer requirements • Competition intensified – no more monopolies ‚ level-playing fields • Shifts in industrial zones – products made & sold globally ‚ no specific place • Changes in customer & supplier
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with the immediate requirement. Suggests a level of inventory may be appropriate (this is not implied in the case) particularly for the retail sector. Explicit that retail uses requires standard products so pareto/ABC analysis may be worth trying for inventory management purposes. See Pareto/ABC‚ forecasting. • There are clearly some issues with not meeting customer expectations in the construction sector. Partly due to use of high quality ( highly polished‚ hand crafted) samples and v.good photography
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UTILITY OF QUALITY CONTROL TOOLS AND STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY IN AN INDUSTRY RALLABANDI SRINIVASU 1 G. SATYANARAYANA REDDY 2 SRIKANTH REDDY RIKKULA 3 1. Professor & Director in St. Mary’s Group of Institutions‚ Hyderabad‚ India. 2. Professor & HOD-MBA in CMR College of Information Technology‚ Hyderabad‚ India 3. Associate Professor‚ MCA Dept. St.Mary’s College of Engg. & Technology‚ Hyderabad
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Additional Materials: Geometrical instruments 4024/11 May/June 2012 2 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use a pencil for any diagrams or graphs. Do not use staples‚ paper clips‚ highlighters‚ glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer all questions. If working is needed for any question it must be shown in the space below that question. Omission of essential
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S1 Jan 2001 1) The students in a class were each asked to write down how many CDs they owned. The student with the least number of CDs had 14 and all but one of the others owned 60 or fewer. The remaining student owned 65. The quartiles for the class were 30‚ 34 and 42 respectively. Outliers are defined to be any values outside the limits of 1.5(Q3 – Q1) below the lower quartile or above the upper quartile. On graph paper draw a box plot to represent these data‚ indicating clearly any outliers
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THE PARETO PRINCIPLE: ITS USE AND ABUSE Robert Sanders Vilfredo Pareto was a late nineteenth-century economist/sociologist who first noted and re- ported his observation that about 80 percent of wealth was concentrated in about 20 percent of a population. This is the basis for what we now call the Pareto Principle. J. M. Juran‚ one of the foremost practitioners of statistical quality control‚ claims credit for giving the Pareto principle its name. Juran’s Pareto Principle is sometimes known as
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