Westover Wire Works
Westover Wire Works
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1.To solve Westover Wire capacity problems affecting customer demand in the sense that the company has not been able to produce to a capacity enough to meet its customers demand levels, Garcia should propose to the company’s management team to temporarily cut down excess booking. In the mean time the company can focus on embark on capacity building measures such as those proposed by production control manager José Arroyo. To be able to meet the customer demand by April, Ron should recommend that the production department do some structural changes. From the operating date that Ron Garcia received, it is vivid that the machine utilization level, 63 % is below standard levels. To increase monthly output, Ron should recommend that the production department implement strategies to increase machine utilization. Some of these would include:
Minimize machine stoppages
Maximize up-time
Minimizing changeover time during production
Reducing amount of manual work as well as
Continual improvement of the production process (Rosenthal & Rippy, 1976).
2. From the problems addressed by José Arroyo, the decision to bring retired employees in the Drawing Department is very helpful and should be endorsed. If the company was to successfully bring in temporary workers in the drawing department, it would be able to meet customer demand in the month of April. The revenue gained could be used to salvage the company’s debt hence elevating its leverage level (Blackwell, 1997). This would act as a milestone in helping the company meet both market demand as well as individual customer order such as the 600 units of product W007X and 150 units of product W0075C order made to Vivian Espania for a key customer. The workers are best employed on temporary basis since excess work load is anticipated in April only (Hinz, & Enzler, 2006).
3. The plant layout would be comprised of some distinct stages outlined in
Student Name:
Professor’s Name:
Course Title:
Date:
1.To solve Westover Wire capacity problems affecting customer demand in the sense that the company has not been able to produce to a capacity enough to meet its customers demand levels, Garcia should propose to the company’s management team to temporarily cut down excess booking. In the mean time the company can focus on embark on capacity building measures such as those proposed by production control manager José Arroyo. To be able to meet the customer demand by April, Ron should recommend that the production department do some structural changes. From the operating date that Ron Garcia received, it is vivid that the machine utilization level, 63 % is below standard levels. To increase monthly output, Ron should recommend that the production department implement strategies to increase machine utilization. Some of these would include:
Minimize machine stoppages
Maximize up-time
Minimizing changeover time during production
Reducing amount of manual work as well as
Continual improvement of the production process (Rosenthal & Rippy, 1976).
2. From the problems addressed by José Arroyo, the decision to bring retired employees in the Drawing Department is very helpful and should be endorsed. If the company was to successfully bring in temporary workers in the drawing department, it would be able to meet customer demand in the month of April. The revenue gained could be used to salvage the company’s debt hence elevating its leverage level (Blackwell, 1997). This would act as a milestone in helping the company meet both market demand as well as individual customer order such as the 600 units of product W007X and 150 units of product W0075C order made to Vivian Espania for a key customer. The workers are best employed on temporary basis since excess work load is anticipated in April only (Hinz, & Enzler, 2006).
3. The plant layout would be comprised of some distinct stages outlined in
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