Littlefield Labs Report
Little Field 1 Report Paper
Team Bigfield
Michael Cambell
Donovan Ricks
Robert Sorum
Van Sy
I. Team Dynamics For the Little field 1 project our team, Bigfield, consisted of four people. First we have Michael Cambell, his number is 707-450-9523 and his email is: theonebras@aol.com. Next is Donovan Ricks, his number is 916-284-5028 and his email is: Donny.Rix_84@yahoo.com. Next is Robert Sorum, his number is 530-219-4173 and his email is: rtsorum@gmail.com. And then finally we have Van Sy, his number is 916-346-8856 and his email is vchaysy@yahoo.com. Responsibility for monitoring the progress of our team was taken up by each member of the team. Each member was assigned two days to monitor the progress. On each team member’s day they would be responsible for monitoring all stations in the Little Field simulation. It was up to that team member to locate our weaknesses within the simulation and to bring it up to the entire group. Once the group was notified of a change that needed to be made, we would all decide together through a group text. After we all decided that the change was a good idea, we would let the team member who was in charge for the day know and he made the appropriate changes to the station. This proved to be our success in running the simulation; all team members knew what was going on when changes needed to be made. We all came together to figure out the best course of action and then we executed.
II. Operational Decision and Analysis
1. Step 1 is the bottleneck because it has the largest average queue size compare to step 2, 3 or 4. Even though we purchased 5 machines for Step 1, the utilization rate were around 80% or 90% when demand was high. Although Step 2 and 4 do their jobs in the station, they only take 2.1 hours which is still low compare to 5.3 hours in Step 1.
2. In order to provide a throughput of 12 orders per day, 3 machines are needed because 3 machines/5.3 hours = .57 orders per
Team Bigfield
Michael Cambell
Donovan Ricks
Robert Sorum
Van Sy
I. Team Dynamics For the Little field 1 project our team, Bigfield, consisted of four people. First we have Michael Cambell, his number is 707-450-9523 and his email is: theonebras@aol.com. Next is Donovan Ricks, his number is 916-284-5028 and his email is: Donny.Rix_84@yahoo.com. Next is Robert Sorum, his number is 530-219-4173 and his email is: rtsorum@gmail.com. And then finally we have Van Sy, his number is 916-346-8856 and his email is vchaysy@yahoo.com. Responsibility for monitoring the progress of our team was taken up by each member of the team. Each member was assigned two days to monitor the progress. On each team member’s day they would be responsible for monitoring all stations in the Little Field simulation. It was up to that team member to locate our weaknesses within the simulation and to bring it up to the entire group. Once the group was notified of a change that needed to be made, we would all decide together through a group text. After we all decided that the change was a good idea, we would let the team member who was in charge for the day know and he made the appropriate changes to the station. This proved to be our success in running the simulation; all team members knew what was going on when changes needed to be made. We all came together to figure out the best course of action and then we executed.
II. Operational Decision and Analysis
1. Step 1 is the bottleneck because it has the largest average queue size compare to step 2, 3 or 4. Even though we purchased 5 machines for Step 1, the utilization rate were around 80% or 90% when demand was high. Although Step 2 and 4 do their jobs in the station, they only take 2.1 hours which is still low compare to 5.3 hours in Step 1.
2. In order to provide a throughput of 12 orders per day, 3 machines are needed because 3 machines/5.3 hours = .57 orders per