MODULE TITLE: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Hand in date: 6pm Thursday 10th December Alternative Assessment 2‚500 words Report question The aim of the JIT methodology may be deemed to meet demand instantaneously‚ with perfect quality and no waste’. So runs one definition of JIT. Your task is to evaluate the requirements and objectives of a JIT operation and analyse the potential benefits and drawbacks when deciding to apply the JIT methodology to the following operation: A restaurant
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disproved by just a single phenomenon that cannot be explained by the assumption. This disproving does not detract from the validity of the assumption. It just highlights the need or even the existence of another assumption that is more valid. This is the case with the assumption of the conservation of energy‚ which was replaced by Einstein’s global-more valid -postulation of the conservation of energy and mass. Einstein’s assumption is not true to the same extent that the previous one was not "true". The
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Case Three: Kristen’s Cookie Company 1. Draw a process flow chart for cookie production. 2. How many orders can Kristen fill in a night‚ assuming she is open for four hours each night? Throughout rate= 6/hour 6 orders x 4 hours = 24 orders Therefore Kristen can fill 24 orders each night. 3. How long will it take her to fill a rush order? A ‘rush’ order will still take 26min as this is how long the operations time is. None of the processes can be eliminated with rush orders therefore
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Introduction What Is the Definition of Quality Management? Basically Quality management is a process of making sure that the product or service meets a certain quality‚ specification or standards. In the approach towards Quality Management there are many things that need to be considered. Consideration such as management activities and functions. The same consideration is involved in determination of quality policy and its implementation through means such as quality planning‚ quality assurance
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4.709 Operations Management Individual Assignment Lecturer: Mr. Ray Ninow Bhawana Vohra – ID No. 20140195 Total words: 1869 1. Custom Fabricators Company (a) The balance of Customer Service and Resource utilization Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is‚ the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation. Customer Service is defined by three
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An operation is composed of processes designed to add value by transforming inputs into useful outputs. Inputs may be materials‚ labor‚ energy‚ and capital equipment. Output may be a physical product or a service. A metric used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used. Displayed as a percentage‚ capacity utilization levels give insight into the overall slack that is in the economy or a firm at a given point in time. Using the data provided in the case‚ we are able
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Case Study Three: Thanks for 24 Years of Service. Now Here’s the Door! Russ McDonald graduated from the university of Michigan with his MBA in 1969. He had numerous job offers but chose General Motors for several reasons. The automobile industry offered terrific career opportunities‚ and GM was the world’s number one car manufacturer. Salaries at GM were among the highest in corporate America‚ and a job at GM provided unparalleled security. A white-collar job with GM was the closest anybody
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Set 1 Q.1:- Define project management‚ resource‚ process and project cycle. Explain the life-cycle of a project. Ans:- Project management: It is an art of controlling the cost‚ time‚ manpower‚ hardware and software resources involved in a project. as “the application of knowledge‚ skills‚ tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements”. Project management is accomplished through the application of and integration of the project management processes of initiating‚ planning
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the same thing outside of the US so they opened a plant in Juarez‚ Mexico to manufacture harnesses for US and other foreign customers. At the beginning‚ however their results were very poor. Probably‚ the most important issue was that none of the management had the necessary experience needed for their managerial positions and hardly anyone spoke Spanish. Also‚ the factory was very poorly equipped that could not compete with the lofty requirements of NUMMI - Packard’s immediate customer. Packard was
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Case: Restoration project at Bennett Auto Sales and Services (BASS) Bennett Auto Sales and Services (BASS)consists of three car dealerships that sell and service several makes of American and Japanese cars‚ two auto part stores‚ a large body shop and car painting business‚ and an auto salvage yard. David Bennett‚ owner of BASS‚ went into the car business when he inherited a Ford dealership from her father. He was able to capitalize on her knowledge and experience to build her business into the
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