FALL 2011 2011 Deadline: October 26‚ Middle East Technical University – Northern Cyprus Campus BUS 361 Operations Management Homework 1 - Solutions 1. Fruit Computer Company manufactures memory chips in lots of ten chips. From past experience‚ Fruit knows that 80% of all lots contain 10% (1 out of 10) defective chips‚ 20% of all lots contain 50% (5 out of 10) defective chips. If a good batch (that is‚ 10% defective) of chips is sent on to the next stage of production‚ processing costs
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* Learning Objectives: 1. List and briefly explain the elements in the control process 2. Explain how control charts are used to monitor a process‚ and the concepts that underlie their use 3. Use and interpret control charts 4. Perform run tests to check for nonrandomness in process output 5. Assess process capability * What is Quality Control? 6. A process that evaluates output relative to a standard and takes corrective action when output doesn’t
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Production & Operations Management–Homework 1 for Section 4 Due Tuesday October 16‚ 2012 1.1 Eastman publishing Company is considering publishing a paperback textbook on spreadsheet applications for business. The fixed cost of manuscript preparation‚ textbook design‚ and production setup is estimated to be $80‚000. Variable production and material costs are estimated to be $3 per book. Demand over the life of the book is estimated to be 4‚000 copies. The publisher plans to sell the text to college
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products and even offering a no questions money back guarantee‚ ALDI’s leads the way to a competitive advantage. Not only does the quality of the products allow ALDI’s to pursue a differentiation strategy‚ but modern quality methods like total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time (JIT) also promote low-cost and response strategies. By only keeping max 2 brands per product and only 700 products in ALDI’s stores the makes sure that stock moves fast and the possibility for old stock is very slim. ALDI
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PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Forecasting helps managers and businesses develop meaningful plans and reduce uncertainty of events in the future. Managers want to match supply with demand; therefore‚ it is essential for them to forecast how much space they need for supply to each demand. 1.1 QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES * LINEAR TREND Show steady‚ straight-line increases or decreases where the trend-line can go up or down and the angle may be steep or shallow
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Operation management is concerned with the bunch of activities that design and produces goods or services by the input-transformation-output process. (Slack 2001) Operation management can also be defined as the process of transforming different resources or inputs (labour‚ capital‚ machinery‚ land and buildings‚ materials and information) that are used in the operational activities of an organisation to the output (value added product and services)for the customers in a controlled
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Scrutinizing policy objectives with creative thinking and ongoing analysis in order to continually frame the problem and develop/revise plans that will apply the best possible doctrine at the highest levels is the intent. Military planners for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF)‚ the 2003 U.S. military action against Iraq‚ allowed the civilian leadership to dictate how the military should fight. Instead of military planners planning for what policy makers wanted the military to accomplish‚ policy makers
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serve its global customers. A company ’s executives and managers often develop location strategies‚ but they may select consultants (or economic development groups) to undertake the task of developing a location strategy‚ or at least to assist in the process‚ especially if they have little experience in selecting locations. Formulating a location strategy typically involves the following factors: 1. Facilities. Facilities planning involves determining what kind of space a company will need given
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ge1 Operation Management 1.1 Definition Operation Management is the activity of managing the resources which produce and deliver goods and services (Slack et al‚ 2010). These activities commences from the very initial production stage of information gathering right up to the final stage of consumer consumption of the product. Every organization does operation management even if they do not notice it. All organizations produce goods and/or services and to create goods and/or services‚ the organization
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Contents Introduction 1 Defining tour operator 2 Effect of Current and recent trends and development on the tour operations sector 2 Tour operations sector 3 Holiday package 4 Audiences 4 Planning stages 5 Negotiation 7 Details of negotiation 7 Contracting: 8 Pricing details 8 Travel tour operators sell price 9 Brochure planning 9 E – Brochure 9 Appropriateness of E – brochure 10 A case study of Thailand E- brochure 10 Methods of distribution use to sell a holiday
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