[pic] ISCOM/471 Self-Assessment Questions |Week One – Fundamentals of Operations Management for Manufacturing and Service Industries | Note. Answers to questions appear on the last page of this document. • 1. Which of the following factors account for the interest in organizational management? a. Quality improvements b. Current problems/opportunities c. Inventory costs d. Customer satisfaction e. All of the above 2. Operations
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BW MANUFACTURING COMPANY CASE SUMMARY The owners of BW Manufacturing‚ a small manufacturer of gas grills‚ have prepared a preliminary budget for the upcoming year and would like to assess the financial impact of several alternative scenarios‚ including dropping a product; changing the price on a product‚ with a resulting increase in volume; and shifting advertising focus‚ with a resulting shift in volume from one product to another. A new budget must be prepared. At year-end‚ the actual results
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lately because of the success of the Japanese in doing business overseas. What do you know about Japanese management techniques? 4. How would you describe the system of management that is widely used in your country? Case 6 THE MORIOKA MANUFACTURING INTRODUCTION During the 1970s and 1980s‚ worldwide attention has focused on the successes of Japanese firms doing business in the United States‚ Europe‚ and elsewhere. Nissan‚ Toyota‚ Honda‚ NEC‚ Sanyo‚ Panasonic‚ and numerous other
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ME 686: Micro-manufacturing Assignment 1 Study the effects of process parameters (speed‚ feed‚ depth of cut etc.) associated with SPDT for manufacturing of micro lens let arrays. Also find out the ranges of these process parameters and values of optimal process parameters. Submitted by: Marmeek Kishor Kumar Kosambia (09010332) Submitted to : Dr. S.N. Joshi Date of Submission: 17/01/13 Introduction A microlens array is composed of a series of micro lens distributed in a regular pattern
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Introduction and Implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) By: Mr. Rakesh Kumar ‚ Ms Monika Date: 26.01.2014 Total Quality Management is a management approach that originated in the 1950s and has steadily become more popular since the early 1980s. Total Quality is a description of the culture‚ attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with products and services that satisfy their needs. The culture requires quality in all aspects of the company’s
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PRE-FEASIBILITY REPORT Modernization cum Expansion of Sugar Unit from 5‚000 to 8‚000TCD Capacity and Cogeneration Project of 19.5 MW Installed Capacity M/s. Karmayogi Shankarraoji Patil Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Limited Mahatma Phule Nagar‚ Bijwadi‚ Taluka Indapur‚ District Pune‚ Maharashtra Prepared By VASANTDADA SUGAR INSTITUTE * Manjari (Bk)‚ Pune‚ Maharashtra 412 307 Telephone: (020) 26902100‚ 26902343/7/6‚ Fax (020) 26902244 Web Site: www.vsisugar.com *Accredited by QCI/NABET (Provisional)
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1.8 Give an example of a law that implements an ethical principle. Give an example of a law that enforces a particular group ’s idea of how people should behave? There are many examples of a law that implements an ethical principle‚ such as the laws of theft‚ murder‚ marriage‚ copyrights etc. Laws that implement ethical principles exist for the sake of societal harmony and to maintain stability among the communities. One such law is the Law of Bribery (Title 18 of the US Code). The government
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At first glance of Cindy Jackson’s website‚ her only goal seems to be to try and make money. Most of her website is about selling her line of cosmetics and beauty aids along selling with her plastic surgery advice. Upon a more in depth analysis‚ my personal opinion is that Cindy Jackson has some serious self-image issues. After so many operations‚ she has come to believe that beauty is on the outside‚ and she looks for any way necessary to achieve the look of her ideal‚ an imaginary person. The
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fourth-largest tractor company n the world‚ M&M has four tractor plants in India (Mumbai‚ Nagpur‚ Rudrapur in Uttranchal‚ and Jaipur). It has been maintaining its market leadership for the past two decades. During the late 1980s‚ the company tried to apply TQM concepts such as quality circles without getting any success. M&M was the market leader in the tractors segment at that time‚ but in view of the looming multinational
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continue to be so as years pass by. Local Literature Feed is one of the most critical inputs to the swine and poultry industries in the Philippines. It represents roughly 60 percent of the total cost to produce pork‚ poultry meat and eggs. Because of the critical role of feeds to these industries‚ feed production or feed milling has evolved into a multi-billion-peso support industry to animal and fish
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