296 HANDOUT: CONTINUOUS FLOW (PRODUCT ORIENTED LAYOUT) AND BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS Reference: Operations Management by Mark A. Vonderembse and Gregory P. White. The Product Layout and System Capacity The capacity of a product-oriented system can be visualized as a series of pipes of varying capacity‚ with the smallest diameter or capacity holding back the entire system. Exhibit 9.3 illustrates five pipes (departments or machines) with different diameters (capacities). The output
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Process Management is a hot topic in business circles today. Most companies report that they are investing in business process management. Some are focused on modeling their operations‚ while others focus on measuring process performance. Some are committed to Six Sigma improvement efforts‚ while others describe how Information Technology (IT) is being used to automate a key business process. Only a few companies‚ however‚ report that they actually use process measures in the day-to-day management of
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produce 30‚000 good T-shirts per month. Their plant operates 200 hours per month‚ but the new machines will be used for T-shirts only 60 percent of the time and the output usually includes 5 percent that are "seconds" and unusable. The stamping operation takes 1 minute per T-shirt‚ and the stamping machines are expected to have 90 percent efficiency considering adjustments‚ changeover of patterns‚ and unavoidable downtime. How many stamping machines are required? Target stamping-30000nos limting
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Markets Motorcycles: Overall Two-wheeler sales of Indian players is dominated by the domestic market and‚ within it‚ by motorcycles. After growing at a sharp clip from the late 1990s‚ motorcycle sales witnessed a 7.8% drop in volume in 2007-08‚ due to falling domestic demand as a result of rising interest rates and many private sector banks reducing their retail lending exposures. 2008-09 saw a modest increase in motorcycle sales of 4%‚ driven largely by growth in cash sales. Even so‚ sales of
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MKT B370 Operations Management SPECIMEN EXAMINATION PAPER Important Note: This specimen examination paper serves solely as an illustration of the types of questions which may be contained in the examination. Students should not construe these questions as the actual examination questions nor part of the actual examination paper. In addition‚ this specimen examination paper does not purport to represent the complete scope or coverage of the course and the distribution of the topics to be examined
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approach to teamwork that moves responsibility for decisions further down the organization chart to the level of the employee actually doing the job Continuous Improvement Management’s view of performance standards of the organization The way management views the contribution and role of its workforce (employee involvement and team efforts are the key to improvement) Key Elements of TQM: Quality is defined by customer Employee involvement Continuous improvement Prevention‚ not inspection
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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 2 (Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems and Solutions 1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain. Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced
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in 2005 to 110-120 gm now and there is a lot of scope to grow even further‚" says Rajesh Ramanathan‚ director‚ HR‚ Cadbury Kraft Foods. Increasing consumer demand has led to more and more players entering the market. Cadbury Kraft Foods has been a market leader in the chocolate category since the last 64 years in India. The chocolate is worth Rs 3‚200 crore in India of which Cadbury Kraft Foods has a 70% share‚ 20% is held by Nestle and the others operate in the remaining 10%‚ which forms around
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The Importance of Transport in Location Selection The location of economic activities is fundamentally based on geographical concepts of the site and its situation. The site relates to the characteristics of a specific location while the situation concerns the relationships of a location in relation to other locations. Historically‚ specific sites suitable for defense or commerce have been important factors in the location of cities. In addition to being a factor of spatial organization‚ transportation
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Written Analysis of the Case: CADBURY Submitted by: Dexter Batingal Keziah Gentugaya Patrick John Tabay Rick Elmann Labrador Ann Beniga Group 2 Submitted to: Ramon Crisostomo Professor I – Executive Summary The gist of the case study is the struggle of an ethical company in maintaining the integrity of its supply chain. The call for a legislation that will affect the product labeling of all chocolates available on grocery shelves created an impact in marketing the product
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