Hong Kong Environment Light Sound Temperature Humidity Man Machine/Technology Posture Fatigue Physical comfort 1 A little about me … • Calvin Or • Assistant Professor‚ Dept of IMSE • BEng.‚ Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management • MSc‚ Industrial Engineering • PhD‚ Industrial & Systems Engineering Contact Information – Tel: 2859-2587 – Email: klor@hku.hk – Office hour: By appointment 2 Course syllabus 3 About my teaching and class • Teaching is about sharing
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http://fp05-527.web.dircon.net/ikea_company_profile.html Profile: ikea IKEA is the world’s most successful mass-market retailer‚ selling Scandinavian-style home furnishings and other house goods in 230 stores in 33 countries and hosting 410 million shoppers per year. An acronym for founder Ingvar Kamprad and his boyhood home of Elmtaryd‚ Agunnaryd‚ IKEA began operating in Sweden in 1943 and continues its original ethos based upon cost obsession fused with design culture. No design‚ no matter
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TRUE or FALSE 1. T F It is impossible to develop a process that has zero variability. 2. T F Assignable variations in a process are also called natural variations. 3. T F An x-bar chart would be appropriate to monitor the number of defects in a production lot. 4. T F The central limit theorem provides the statistical foundation for control charts. 5. T F If we are tracking quality of performance for a class of students‚ we should plot the pass/fail result on a p-chart. 6. T F Sample
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Operations management and operations strategy are two very important undertakings for any company that is involved in the production of products and services. This is because operations management ensures that raw materials are successfully converted to finished goods‚ while operations strategy makes sure that whichever goods or services produced have a competitive advantage over similar products offered by rival companies. It is from the business strategy that the operations strategy is derived
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CHM2330 (Winter 2015) Midterm # 1 Review Short answer questions - 9 Long answer questions - 15 Possible bonus questions - 5 Short Answer Questions: 1) Draw the Maxwell Distribution graph‚ with all axis labeled as well as descriptions of each curve. 2) What does the correspondence principle state? 3) What is the ultraviolet catastrophe? What is one of the consequences of the ultra violet catastrophe? 4) What does the de Broglie hypothesis state? 5) Write down the integrals which describe orthonormal
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FIN432 Review questions for midterm exam 1. The nominal risk-free rate of interest is a function of a) The real risk-free rate plus the investment’s variance. b) The prime rate and the rate of inflation. c) The T-bill rate plus the inflation rate. d) The real risk-free rate and the expected rate of inflation.* 2. At the beginning of the year an investor purchased 100 shares of common stock from ABC Corporation at $10 per share. During the year‚ the firm paid dividends of $1 per share
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JUS 485 Midterm Exam Answer the following questions‚ which are based upon the first four modules of the course. 1. Explain why it is that evidence gained through the forensic science process is almost always considered to be circumstantial evidence. The most important fact that makes forensic evidence circumstantial is because science cannot be clearly defined by law. The legal system have created standards and written legal rules regarding the admissibility of forensic evidence. When forensic
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OPRE 6302: Homework Assignment 5 Problem1 a) Draw the project network diagram C(2) E(8) A(3) B(4) G(4) H(9) D(6) F(7) b) List all the paths in the network diagram. Say which one(s) is(are) the critical path(s) and what the minimum project duration is. PATHS ACEG=3+2+8+4=17 months ACEH=3+2+8+9=22 months BDEG=4+6+8+4=22 months BDEH=4+6+8+9=27 months BDFH=4+6+7+9=26 months Critical path: BDEH Minimum project duration: 27 months c) For each activity compute ES
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MSIS 301 – Homework Chapter 4 Carlos Mazur Prof. Davood Golmohammadi 4.10. Data collected on the yearly registrations for a Six Sigma seminar at the Quality College are shown in the following table: Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Registrations 4 6 4 5 10 8 7 9 12 14 15 a) Develop a 3 year moving average to forecast registrations from year 4 to year 12. Year 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Forecast 4.6 5 6.3 7.6 8.3 8 9.3 11.6 13.6 b) Estimate demand again for years 4 to 12 with a 3 year weighted moving
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space in her apartment to hang 4 of them on a wall. The number of different arrangements of four pictures from a selection of ten pictures is: A.5‚040 B.24 C.151‚200 D.210 The failure rate for taking the bar exam in Philadelphia is 41%. If 375 people take the bar exam‚ what is the mean for the number of failures? A.138.1 B.171.2 C.90.7 D.153.8 A researcher surveyed college students to study their opinion about the proposed change in smoking rules. The researcher asked a
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