Operation Management Homework
Learning Outcome:
• Understand the concept of process selection, forecasting, capacity planning, production forecast methods and schedule operations.
• Apply knowledge and skills to optimize production objective of maximizing profits using qualitative and quantitative techniques in related areas of operations management.
• Exhibit the knowledge of lean system, quality controls and green systems
Task
Problem I:
• Workers should be given more control over the inspection for their own work. Discuss the pros and cons of this situation?
Problem II:
• What are the advantages of Exponential smoothing over the Moving average and the Weighted moving average?
• Explain the aggregate planning strategy?
Problem III:
Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. Sequence the jobs in priority order 1, 2, 3, 4.
Job Work Center/Machine Hours Due Date (days)
1 A/3, B/2, C/2 3
2 C/2, A/4 2
3 B/6, A/1, C/3 4
4 C/4, A/1, B/2 3
• Using finite capacity scheduling, draw a Gantt chart for the schedule.
• What is the make span?
• How much machine idle time is there?
• How much idle time (waiting time) is there for each job?
• When is each job delivered?
• Which department is the bottleneck?
• Calculate the machine utilization?
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.