Manufacturing Strategy – MBA 622 Instructor Prof. R.R.K. Sharma rrks@iitk.ac.in Office : FB326‚ Residence H.No. 643‚ IIT‚ Campus Kanpur – 208 016 COURSE OBJECTIVES Most of our students (B Tech and MBA) are engineers in various disciplines. It is natural that they develop their career in the “Manufacturing Function” of organizations they join. This course prepares them to take up the responsibilities as the “Manufacturing Chief” or the “Manufacturing Vice President” of the company. Briefly
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Business process changes: The IT system currently in use by Riordan Manufacturing Inc. is outdated and lacks many of the new technologies and features that are available today. This old and obsolete system is constantly requiring irregular maintenance in order to keep it in operation. The current increase in the consumer ’s demand for Riordan products presents the need for an improved and up-to-date ERP system. Riordan Manufacturing Inc. ’s continued success requires a system that is better designed
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The following proposal is for the implementation of Active Directory within the Riordan Manufacturing organization which includes plants in Michigan‚ Georgia‚ China and Headquarters in California. In the implementation of Active Directory‚ Riordan’s old domain will be replaced with Windows 2003 servers acting as domain controllers and running Active Directory Services at each of the above plants. This allows the network administrators at each Riordan plant to actively manage network resources. This
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The auditor‚ Sam Wong‚ is not totally understanding the operation of Plastim Manufacturing. Before applying the audit procedure‚ it is essential for an auditor to have a well understanding of the client and the industry. Auditors should make a review on the annual reports and financial statements in the past year in order to make an
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NASCAR: Every Second Counts Helping Win From The Pits. By: Mark Appolloni: Introduction to the case: NASCAR‚ The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing‚ is the largest approved body of motorsports in the United States. In 2006‚ after 15 years of working in NASCAR racing as an athletic director for HMS‚ Andy Papathanassiou (known as Papa) began searching for the next breakthrough to improve pit crew performances and times. His innovative techniques and determination had successfully
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Main problem: Toyota Motor Manufacturing‚ U.S.A. (TMM) is deviating from the standard assembly line principle of jidoka in an attempt to avoid expenses incurred from stopping the production line for seat quality defects. This deviation has contributed to the inability to identify the root cause of the problem‚ which has led to decreased run ratios on the line and an excess of defective automobiles in the overflow lot for multiple days. If this problem isn’t fixed quickly‚ an increased amount
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process‚ such as manufacturing process. Next shoring is “the transfer of business or manufacturing processes to companies in a Nearby location. Where both parties may be benefited from one or more of the following dimension of proximity i.e Cultural‚ linguistic‚ political etc.‚ 1.2 Understanding the change in Market‚ Manufacturing Cost and Technology: Over the decade Manufacturing cost‚ market and Technology has played an important role in selecting the location of the Manufacturing industry weather
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• Wallace’s future business strategy : Gradual shift toward products that are sold to multiple customers and products that are manufactured on a volume basis • Wallace is good at below things and he will continue them in future plans: o Old BS ▪ Respond to individual customer design requirements ( new products to unique customer applications) customer oriented Process design choice is about customization.batch or assembly line . (In order to do that we should produce in low
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Q1.Based on the 2004 statement of profit and loss data (Exhibits 1 and 2)‚ do you agree with Water’s decision to keep product 103? In order to support an opinion on the side we decided to analyze all the probable scenarios. If the company management decided that it is better to stop the production of product 103‚ they could do this in one of the following manners: 1. Stop production and any business related to product 103. 2. Stop production but outsource it to another company and continue
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AGW610 LESSON 3 CASE 3: Morgan Manufacturing Charles Crutchfield‚ manager of manufacturing operations at Morgan Manufacturing‚ was evaluating the performance of the company. Given his position‚ he was primarily interested in the health of the operating aspects of the business. At Morgan‚ the gross margin percentage was considered to be a key measure of operating performance; other measures considered to provide essential information on the health of business operations were pre-tax return on sales
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