Process Selection and Facility Layout Korin Castro Bernadette Cepres Sam Maylao Felice Tatlonghari Carla Gay-ya Process Selection The ways organizations choose to produce or provide their goods and services. It involves choice of technology‚ type of processing‚ and so on. It influences – Capacity planning – Layout of facilities – Equipment – Design of work systems Forecastin g Capacity Planning Product & service Design Technologic al Change Facilities and Equipment Layout Process Selection
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WAUSAU EQUIPMENT COMPANY: A LEAN JOURNEY (A) History and Business Background Ashford Elevator Company was founded in 1946 in a small midwestern town. Its first products were grain elevators‚ sold to local co-ops and farms. Started as a small shop with five workers‚ the company‚ which quickly grew to include 50 employees‚ began engineering‚ manufacturing‚ and servicing a variety of machinery and equipment for the agribusiness industry. The company changed its name to Wausau Equipment Company (WECO)
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Facility Planning Part 1 Pediatric Cardiology Clinic I chose to develop a plan for a pediatric cardiology clinic in our local area‚ the need for the clinic is very great due to the fact that the old cardiology clinic has closed down and there are no other pediatric cardiology clinics within at least a two hour drive from here. This clinic is an outpatient clinic that will be open from 8am to 5pm and closed on the weekends‚ with an emergency line for patients needing to speak to the cardiologist
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broad topic our research paper will be addressing is corporate ethics and social responsibility. In a more specific sense our group will research whether or not Mountain Equipment Co-Operatives actions are deemed to be ethical and socially responsible. Research Question The research question considered: Is the Mountain Equipment Co-Operatives (MEC) track record or practices of corporate governance as a company in areas involving ethics and values including things such as human rights‚ charitable
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Evolution of equipment in civil engineering: Old Equipment: Graphometer: A graphometer is a surveying instrument which consists of a semi-circle which has been divided into degrees and minutes‚ and has a pair of sight veins at either end as well as a movable alidade with a pair of sights at either end. It was used to calculate distances by means of triangulation and to determine positions of specific points on land or at sea .Many graphometers‚ although not all of them‚ have a built in magnetic
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Facility Planning Part I Michelle James HCS/446 August 26‚ 2013 Hanna Matatyaho Facility Planning Part I There is a facility in Plaquemine‚ Louisiana that is extremely new to the town. The name of this facility is Ochsner of Plaquemine. This clinic is an obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) clinic. “The Ochsner Women’s Services team provides a range of services from pregnancy and childbirth to routine exams. For expecting moms‚ the team provides a variety of childbirth options including alternative
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A correctional facility is intended to be a place of rehabilitation for convicts. In practice‚ however‚ it is used as a mean to control and break down the sentenced individuals When it is time for their release‚ inmates are not prepared to live a successful life‚ but they are released with the notion that they will soon return. Our prison system is a recipe to keep criminals incarcerated‚ and its practices to punish inmates rather than rehabilitate them are leading to a country wide epidemic of mental
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The nursing research question that is being asked in the large picture is “Do Magnet principles affect nursing turnover and satisfaction?” In looking at this question by the method of a systematic review‚ the following article was found‚ “Factors influencing job satisfaction of front line nurse managers: a systematic review” (Cummings& Lee‚ 2008). This review is pertinent to nursing research in the fact that it addresses a different set of nurses whom support those who are the direct caregivers
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Facility Location and Facility Layout Strategic Importance • Supply-chain management is critical • Facility location—intrinsically related to SCM • Examples: – FedEx: While opening a hub for Asia in Philippines 1995— • it had to evaluate several sites • Linking its American (Memphis) and European (Paris) Hubs • BTW‚ the facility was closed and the new hub since 2009 is in Guangzhou‚ Southern China – Mercedes’ first overseas plant in Vance‚ Alabama • Evaluated 170 sites in 30 states and 2 countries
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Using a balanced scorecard to help measure facilities management performance by Steve Silen‚ Director‚ KPMG Advisory Services For nearly 20 years‚ leading organizations have been using balanced scorecards to strategically measure the financial and non-financial performance of different operational functions within their firms. More recently‚ they have begun leveraging them to measure the performance of their third-party service providers. In the facilities management (FM) function‚ use of a balanced
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