Question: Experienced engineer working for EMU Consultancy, is given an engineering task for improving the Mechanical pencil in The provided pen does not have any drawing or operation manual.In a recent new product survey report customer’s needs are summarized as - balletic, strong, easy to control and maintainable, durable, safe for children and comfortable with some modern (21st Century) add on-features. As a result, the improvised pr...
Scenario OverviewSection A Consider the scenario where an engineering team is building a new product, a product manager designs the three components of the product, and 3 developers each implement one of the designs into a functionality, which combines into the product. Then the QA engineer examines the product for issues and a release of the product to customers occurs. The Pm, DV1, DV2, DV3, QAE nodes respectively denote the probability that t...
Question: Task: Critically review and compare the engineering strategies of two major global automotive manufacturing companies. Your research from publicly available information should include each company’s current and future-oriented research and development (R&D), technology and innovation strategies. Context This assessment will provide you with an opportunity to research and learn from the experience of two major comp...
Assignment GradingThis is an individual assignment. In this assignment you will be reading and working through the "Flashy Flashers Inc." case study on page 493 of your Krajewski et al. (2019) textbook. In completing this case study you will develop dependent demand production plans, and discuss the possible implementation problems when using MRP. Assignment Grading This assignment counts for 15% of your final course grade. It is graded accordin...
Question: In a wax manufacturing, WAXs arrives every 1hr in lot sizes of 4 to a buffer. Each wax is sent to assembly machine named OVEN where it is combined with Mould into one part. The oven needs 5 mins for set up which requires an operator. Then the oven runs another 15mins to combine the wax to the mould. Once the combined part is done, it is sent to a cooling for at least 40 mins. Eventually, the combined part needs to be split from the mou...
ObjectivesThe purpose of this case study are threefold: firstly, to provide students the opportunity to practice basic process analysis concepts, such as cycle time, throughput time, input rates, output rates, bottlenecks and utilization; secondly, for students to consider the analytical and psychological dynamics of queues and operational transparency; and thirdly, to enable students to consider the interrelationships between the design of an...
BackgroundBlanche Davis had just completed her third year as Director of Quality at Laralex Hospital, a medium-sized not-for-profit facility located in a growing region of the Southeastern United States. Laralex Hospital, a member of the Southeast Medical Care Group, offers a wide range of services to patients who typically belong to one of the three major managed care providers in the area. The 260-bed facility includes numerous departments s...
Task: 1. Map the “front” of the application service, starting from the customer with a potential issue needing to be resolved and ending with the prioritizing process. Make use of the information provided by James Sorenson and other information included in the case document. Make any assumptions necessary to complete the process map and be sure to include all key activities, routes (flows) through t...
Generating ValueTask: BYD Co Ltd is a Chinese manufacturer of automobiles, battery powered cycles and buses. BYD China is pursuing electric cars and hopes to become the world’s largest car company. The below paper describes how proper OM practices will help propel BYD to the forefront of the not so distant future of the auto industry. This paper has discussed about the seven steps of forecasting in BYD. The supply chain faced by BYD...
AssignmentMGMT-6089 OPM Personal Leadership ReflectionInstructions(15%of course grade)Introduction:Throughout this course you have studied numerous aspects of leadership. In week 7(module 7) you performed a Personal Leadership Assessmentin which you looked at four key areasof your life as a leader: leadership history, leadership philosophy, leadership strengths, and leadership training and feedback. In essence you took a snapshot of your leaders...
Pareto Analysis of Filling ProcessThe first Case Study is based on Namratha Oil Refineries Pvt. Ltd.: Tackling Oil Giveaway, found in your HBSP Coursepack. You must purchase the case study. 1. Perform a Pareto analysis of the filling process. Can you identify the main problem area? 2. Perform a TAKT time analysis of the filling process and the Cycle time. What is the bottleneck? 3. Perform a Fishbone analysis. Use this to do a root-cause analysi...
Your group will complete a facilities and process design analysis of a local company / store / retail outlet. You will be required to1) find a local company to analyze – all companies must be unique, NO DUPLICATES. Your instructor will have a sign-up sheet to prevent duplication,a. There is a permission form to be filled out by the manager of the company you choose to study. This form must be submitted with the report.2) creat...
Case Study: Eric Seemore, Director, Quality Assurance Eric Seemore was whistling as he walked toward his office, still feeling a bit like a stranger since he had been hired four weeks ago as Director, Quality Assurance. All last week he had been away from the plant at an interesting seminar entitled “Quality in the 2020’s” given for quality managers of manufacturing plants by the corporate training department. He was ...
Learning Outcomes 1 Research and evaluate a range of key issues in strategic and operational management.2 Critique a range of key theoretical models and apply them to case study-based examples.3 Critically evaluate strategic management practice in organisations and its relationship to managing operations.4 Identify and analyse complex problems using appropriate knowledge. a) Strategic management can be defined as the continuous proces...
Section 1Your task for this part of the assignment is to answer the following questions NB: This is a research based section and ALL the sources used, other than the material provided, are to be cited using Harvard referencing techniques Question 1 Identify five common project risk strategies employed to address threats that a project may face. Give an example of each. Question 2: Projects are often completed late. Describe the tech...