Stanford University Graduate School of Business April 29‚ 2009 * * Managing a Short Product Life Cycle at Littlefield Labs Background In early January‚ Littlefield Labs (LL) opened its first and only highly automated lab to test blood samples. LL receives the samples from local hospitals and clinics and processes the samples using disposable kits. After 360 days of operation the lab will cease operations‚ shut down‚ and dispose of any remaining kit inventories. Neither capacity nor inventory has
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Littlefield Simulation 2: Occupylittlefield With our second littlefield simulation complete‚ we have reinforced many of the concepts and lessons learned in class. We had a better understanding of the operation of the littlefield facility and how certain modifications would affect the throughput and lead time. Though we are pleased with our final results compared to the rest of the class‚ we see there is still room for improvement. We made many mistakes‚ but most importantly we have learned from
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Overview and Objectives The game was held over a week and enabled us to increase our understanding of inventory management at the production stage in the supply chain. In this game‚ the objective was to accomplish production and delivery of the production within 3 days of lead time. Over the course of the game‚ we were to monitor the production numbers and make adjustments through the number of machines which we owned. Machines affected the revenues through the purchases and the goal was to obtain
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MGT 9702 – SERVICE OPERATIONS I LITTLEFIELD TECHNOLOGIES – OVERVIEW Littlefield Technologies (LT) produces Digital Satellite System (DSS) receivers. These receivers are assembled from kits of electronic components procured from a single supplier. The assembly process consists of four steps carried out at 3 stations called board stuffing‚ testing and tuning. The machines at these stations cost $90‚000‚ $80‚000
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Littlefield Labs 1 Capacity Management at Littlefield Labs I. Introduction There are 3 stations in the game called sample preparing‚ testing‚ and centrifuging‚ while there are 4 steps to process the jobs. Before the game started‚ we tried to familiarize with the process of the laboratories and calculating the costs (both fixed and variable costs) based on the information on the sheet given. We did not intend to buy any machines too early‚ as we wanted to see the demand fluctuation and the
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SAMPLE REPORT: The ‘Stylish’ Report i) ii) Look at the assignment instructions below Now read the sample report. Read the accompanying comments on the side as you go. iii) Is this is a well-written report in your view? Could it be improved in any way do you think? ASSIGNMENT 2: The Stylish Report Background Colin Coif and Pamela Perm are the owners and operators of a hairdressing business Stylish specialising in ‘high end’ quality hairdressing services. Currently they operate two salons in
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Sample Report The Power to Understand. 800-211-8378 • PsychCorp.com Technical Report for DAS-II and WIAT-II (School Age Battery) Examinee: Age: Date of Birth: Examinee ID: Gender: John Sample 8 years‚ 5 months 2/11/1999 1 Male Report Date: Grade: Ethnicity: Examiner: 7/19/2007 Not Specified White not Hispanic Origin Sandra Behrens Spanish Home Language: Dominant Language: Translation Used: Test Administered: DAS-II (1/11/2007) WIAT-II (1/11/2007) Handedness: School: Teacher: Age at
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Littlefield Simulation II Based on our success in the last Littlefield Simulation‚ we tried to utilize the same strategy as last time. Our goals were to minimize lead time by reducing the amount of jobs in queue and ensuring that we had enough machines at each station to handle the capacity. We wanted to keep the lead time between .5 and 1 day in order to get the maximum amount of revenue per job. We utilized data from the first 50 days and put it in an Excel chart to forecast the demand for the
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that changed your excitement into irritation‚ and then you said to yourself‚ “Shit! I forgot what my pin code is!” – that was exactly what I felt when our professor told us that we have to do an activity that we haven’t done before and then make a report about it. I was so excited about the “something you haven’t done before” part to the point I almost forgot that there were so many exciting
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Composting Rubbish: Initial Study on UUM Collected Waste Siti Nurhaliza Othman College of Business‚ School of Technology Management and Logistic‚ University Utara Malaysia‚ 06010‚ Sintok‚ Kedah‚ Malaysia Email: sitliza@gmail.com ABSTRACT Composting has been used as a mean of recycling organic matter back into the soil to improve soil structure and fertility. There is the need for a comprehensive infrastructure for reclaiming organic food and yard wastes at University Utara Malaysia
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