IE 262 MANUFACTURING PROCESSES HOMEWORK 3 Due Date: December 16‚ 2012 1. Three tool materials are to be compared for the same finish turning operation on a batch of 100 steel parts: high speed steel‚ cemented carbide‚ and ceramic. For the high speed steel tool‚ the Taylor equation parameters are: n = 0.125 and C = 70 (m/min). The price of the HSS tool is $15.00 and it is estimated that it can be ground and reground 15 times at a cost of $1.50 per grind. Tool change time is 3 min
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Case Background George Lassiter makes t-shirts for special events such as concerts. The upcoming concert presents another opportunity for George to make and sell t-shirts; however the question is how many t-shirts to produce. There are two fundamental case questions that must be answered: 1. What are the possible financial outcomes if Lassiter orders 5‚000 T-shirts? 7‚500? 10‚000? As shown in the Exhibit‚ a rather simple but detailed decision tree has been made which represents the various options
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Malard Manufacturing Company Malard Manufacturing Company produces control valves that regulate flows through natural gas pipelines. Mallard has approximately 1‚400 employees and has successfully produced a standard line of control valves that are price competitive in the industry. However‚ whenever the production of a new control valve is required‚ problems arise. Developments in electronics‚ metallurgy‚ and flow control theory require the introduction of new products every year or two. These
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The process of a flu vaccine Have you ever gotten a flu shot before? The moment you walk in the doctor’s office and sit on the table. Just waiting for the doctor to come in makes you have even more anxiety. Then the doctor comes thru the door with the tiniest needle‚ that needle has a vaccine that will be injected into your arm to help kill off the flu virus. I’ve always wondered why we needed to get vaccines for different kinds of illnesses. I’ve also wondered what it takes to make a flu vaccine
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Dr. Clifford Brown ABC CASE AC603 ABC MANUFACTURING COMPANY( due 10/8/2010) “If I were to price this crankshaft any lower than $225‚” said Mike Brunner‚ manager of ABC Company’s Machining division‚ “I’d be countermanding my order of last month for our sales staff to stop shaving their bids and to bid full cost plus quotations. I’ve been trying for weeks to improve the quality of our business‚ and if I turn around now and accept this job at $195 or $200 or something less than $225‚ I’ll be
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Acme Manufacturing Company Introduction: The case of Acme Manufacturing Company is about a production manager who is basically lost his control over his time management. Because of that he did lots of mistakes in his daily professional life. Before we understand the whole case‚ we have to know all the character belongs to this case. So I tried to list out all the character below: * Steve Arnold: Production Manager & theme person of the case. * George Summers: Steve Arnold’s Friend
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In contrast‚ a commercial airplane may take one and one-half to two years to manufacture once the order is placed. Mark and Todd have provided the following financial statements. Chris has gathered the industry ratios for the light airplane manufacturing industry. Page 89 You need: (Balance sheet – income statement –ratio analysis) QUESTIONS 1. Using the financial statements provided for S&S Air‚ calculate each of the ratios listed in the table for
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(RED) initiative was set up in early 2006‚ with Rwanda selected as the initial country to benefit from sales of the (RED) products. The first products launched in the UK were the (PRODUCT) RED American Express card and a (PRODUCT) RED vintage T-shirt from Gap launched in March 2006. Other companies joining the scheme included Source: http://www.joinred.com/manifesto.asp. Motorola‚ Converse‚ Apple (introducing a (PRODUCT) RED iPod) and Emporio Armani. There was also a special (PRODUCT) RED
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Running Head: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING INC MANAGEMENT REPORT Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc. Management Report University of Phoenix Systems Analysis and Development CMGT/555 April 27‚ 2009 History and Background Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc. (Riordan) was founded by Dr. Riordan‚ a professor of chemistry‚ who had obtained several patents relative to processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates. Sensing the commercial applications for his patents‚ Dr. Riordan started Riordan
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Manufacturing Execution Systems About the Editor Heiko Meyer has over 10 years of professional experience in developing software solutions for process and factory automation. He holds a master of science degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science (modeling distributed systems) from the Technical University of Munich (Germany). At present he is head of the research and development department at Gefasoft AG. He has published over 30 papers and several books on the subject
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