MA4850 – SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT Littlefield Technologies Report Littlefield Technologies is a job shop which assembles Digital Satellite System receivers. The assembly process is carried out at 3 stations via a four step processes. Station 1 is board stuffing station whereby the first step is executed. The first step consists of mounting the components onto PC Boards and soldering them. The digital components are then briefly tested at the testing station which is station 2 in the
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LittleField (1) What was your initial strategy and how/why did you change your strategy during the game?. (2) Which concepts that you learned in this course did you apply in making your decisions? Explain. (3) What did you learn from the game? General Strategy Getting into the game our strategy was to identify the bottleneck in the process and maximize its utilization. We were aiming to balance our stock so a new stock will arrive every 4 days‚ and the current stock will not run out (but will get
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late penalty. For example at Day 50‚ before the game started‚ we observed that machine 1 was running at 100% utilization for a few days before‚ and we predicted a bottleneck situation would occur here. Therefore we decided to purchase an additional machine immediately as the game started so as to allow continuous processing of lots to meet the demand and prevent losses in revenue. After purchasing additional machine 1‚ we continued observing the utilization of the machine. We were careful not to buy
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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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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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ittlefield Simulation #1: Capacity Management Team: Computronic When the simulation began‚ we quickly determined that there were three primary inputs to focus on: the forecast demand curve (job arrivals‚) machine utilization‚ and queue size prior to each station. Specifically we were looking for upward trends in job arrivals and queue sizes along with utilizations consistently hitting 100%. Upon initial analysis of the first fifty days of operations‚ the team noticed that Station 1 had reached
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Production Planning and Inventory Control CTPT 310 Littlefield Simulation Executive Report Arlene Myers: 260299905 Rubing Mo: 260367907 Brent Devenne: 260339080 Miyaoka Scenario‚ Re: Littlefield Technology Simulation Game: Inventory Management Executive Summary At the onset of the game‚ we determined there were a few key things that had to be addressed to succeed. The first was to avoid stock outs which had already occurred in the first 50 days. We quickly moved to avoid stock outs
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1. The time between arrivals of cars at MRR Service Company is shown in the following probability distribution: Times between Arrivals (Min) Probability 1 0.15 2 0.30 3 0.40 4 0.15 1.00 a) Simulate the arrival of cars at the company for 20 arrivals‚ and compute the average time between arrivals. Random number: 39‚ 73‚ 72‚ 75‚ 37‚ 02‚ 87‚ 98‚ 10‚ 47‚ 93‚ 21‚ 95‚ 97‚ 69‚ 41‚ 91‚ 80‚ 67‚ 59. b) Simulate the arrival of cars at the service station for one hour‚ and compute the average time between
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Managing Customer Responsiveness at Littlefield Labs Background Littlefield Laboratories (LL) has opened another lab. The new lab uses the same process as the lab in the assignment “Capacity Management at Littlefield Labs” — neither the process sequence nor the process time distributions at each machine have changed. On day 0‚ the lab began operations with three preparers‚ one tester‚ and one centrifuge‚ and an inventory of 160 test kits. This left the lab with $1‚000‚000 in reserves. Customer
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