– Heavy Equipment Division (HED) This memo is to identify and analyze the key issues of Detroit plant in Heavy Equipment Division and provide reasonable solutions to the management team. 1， Background Heavy Equipment Division (HED) of the Wriston Manufacturing Corporation is a large axle and brake manufacturer‚ which accounted for approximately 11.2% of the Wriston’s total revenues. There are 9 on-stream plants in the division and a new one is still under construction. The Detroit plant‚ the first
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Wriston Corporation: The Detroit Plant Summary: Richard Sullivan‚ recently appointed vice president in the Heavy Equipment Division (HED) of the Automotive Supplier Group of the Wriston Manufacturing Corporation‚ scrutinized one more time the P&L forecast for the Detroit plant – part of the lengthy report on the future of the plant which had been prepared by a task force Sullivan had appointed six months earlier. He saw three major alternatives: close the plant as soon as possible and transfer its
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To: Richard Sullivan From: im26412 Subject: Proposal for Detroit Plant Date: May 26th‚ 2012 Background and Issues Detroit Plant‚ serves as the first plant of HED division within Wriston Group‚ which almost all division products could trace their roots from‚ cannot achieve an acceptable level of profitability for years even we raise the prices or cut wages. The morale of Detroit is poor and it has been plagued by problems such as absenteeism and high turnover rate. Additionally there is coming
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I. Food Manufacturing Industry in Philippines Food manufacturing‚ which includes food and beverage processing‚ remains the Philippines most dominant primary industry. The industry is worth a gross added value of more than $2 billion and grew by 3.2 percent. The Philippines Bureau of Food and Drugs Statistical Report of Establishments lists a total number of 11601 food processing establishments nationwide. Most of the companies are owned by a single proprietor that is common among micro‚ cottage
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Wriston Manufacturing-Detroit plant (Paper from internet for us reference) Detroit’s production is unique when compared to other Wriston plants. Runs are typically low volume‚ involve significant set-up time‚ and vary significantly due to the sheer volume of different products lines‚ families and models. It is notable that the Detroit plant is the only plant manufacturing all three product lines: brakes‚ off-highway and on-highway axles; all other plants produce only a single product line. Manufacturing
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1 )Manufacturing is the act of making or producing goods by utilizing labor and machineries especially in a large -scale‚ which includes large division of labor. Finished goods produced after manufacturing are further divided into two groups’ producer goods and consumer goods. Producer goods are those supplied to another company for manufacturing other complex products and consumer goods are the finished products which are purchased by the customers directly for the general usage. Casting is a widely
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Some sales men made unrealistic delivery date to customers because they couldn’t access older sales order information. The engineering projects took too long to be transferred to Manufacturing because of lack of project management. Lastly‚ the manufacturing department still relied on too many manual labor steps in manufacturing process. (2) Implementation: The management decided to implement Microsoft ERP across the whole company to stream line their Supply Chain Processes so that the inventory control
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upside down as illustrated in figure 3. Parts is assumed to be picked up from a bin and then re-orientate to correct orientation as illustrated. Cheok Xue Ting . A0073477W . ME3263 Design for Manufacturing and Assembly . DFA Term Project 2. Apply adhesive around the circumference of Plastic Len (2). This part of operation is slow because care has to be taken to apply the adhesive to the circumference of
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Polluter Corp. Polluter Corp. is a company that operates three manufacturing facilities and produces household cleaning products in the United States. The U.S. government grants this company with emission allowances (EAs) that can be used during 2010 to 2030. According to The Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions (FERC)‚ Polluter Corporation records emission allowances as elusive assets with a cost basis of zero. The fiscal year is December 31. To control and decrease the release of pollutants
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Polluter Corp. Polluter Corp. is a company that operates three plants in the United States. They make different cleaning products which are sold to customers. The U.S. government sells or gives out emissions allowances to companies‚ including Polluter Corp.‚ which determines a set amount of pollutants and greenhouse gases a company can let into the environment. These are given out to help discourage pollution by companies. “EA’s” are assigned a year that a company can use in‚ and they also
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