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As VP for operations at Méndez-Piñero Engineering, you must decide which product design, A or B, has the higher reliability.
David Hall, chief of the maintenance department at Mechanical Dynamics, has presented you with the following failure curve. What does it suggest?
This manufacturer will guarantee repairs on any and all failures as part of a service contract. The cost of this service is $5,000 per year.
Identify the six steps in the decision process? Give an example of a good decision you made that resulted in a bad outcome.
What is the equally likely decision model? Discuss the differences between decision making under certainty, under risk, and under uncertainty?
Standardized, reusable containers have obvious benefits for shipping. What is the purpose of these devices within the plant?
What are the characteristics of supplier partnerships with respect to suppliers? Discuss how the Japanese word for card has application in the study of JIT.
Hartley Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners for the defense industry.
What is the objective of maintenance and reliability? How does one identify a candidate for preventive maintenance?
What is the trade-off between operator-performed maintenance versus supplier-performed maintenance?
What roles can computerized maintenance management systems play in the maintenance function?
When is Johnson’s rule best applied in job-shop scheduling? State the four effectiveness measures for dispatching rules?
Although most organizations may make the location decision infrequently, there are some organizations that make the decision quite regularly and often.
Daniel Tracy, owner of Martin Manufacturing, must expand by building a new factory. The search for a location for this factory.
It estimates its fixed cost to be $500.00 and its variable cost to be $0.50 per unit. Selling price is expected to average $0.75 per unit.
If the firm operates 8 hours per day, 20 days per month, what is the monthly capacity of the manufacturing process?
Klassen Toy Company, Inc., assembles two parts ( parts 1 and 2 ): Part 1 is first processed at workstation A for 15 minutes per unit.
As a prospective owner of a club known as the Red Rose, you are interested in determining the volume of sales dollars.
Over what range of demand would the mechanized process be preferred over the manual process?
An electronics firm is currently manufacturing an item that has a variable cost of $.50 per unit and a selling price of $1.00 per unit.
You estimate your fixed cost at $15,000 and the variable cost of each copy sold at $.01. You expect the selling price to average $.05.
Markland Manufacturing intends to increase capacity by overcoming a bottleneck operation by adding new equipment. Two vendors have presented proposals.
Wheeled Coach, based in Winter Park, Florida, is the world’s largest manufacturer of ambulances.
Prepare a case by a conservative plant manager for maintaining the status quo until the returns are more obvious.