APPLICHEM Indian Institute of Management‚ Ranchi Case Analysis Presented to Professor Dr. Ranjan Ghosh Strategic Operation Management Submitted By Bharat Bhushan (PGEXP/019/2013) Prasanta Kumar Pattnaik (PGPEXP/057/2013) Rajesh Dhiman (PGEXP/063/2013) Post-Graduate Executive Programme in Management PGEXP (2013-15 Batch) Applichem Introduction Applichem is a manufacturer of speciality chemicals‚ one of its unique products
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Applichem Case Purpose: This case write-up is intended to compare the performance of Applichem’s 6 Release-ease plants and understand why some plants are performing better than others. Approach: This paper would like to use two methodologies to compare the performance of factories. First‚ this paper will measure input Vs. output. Factories which generate higher output given the same input will rank higher. Inputs can have two dimensions of time and money. We will measure how much input
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Applichem Case OM 888 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis Applichem • Produces Release-ease‚ a specialty chemical • 6 plants that manufacture Release-ease – – – – – – Gary‚ Indiana Frankfurt‚ Germany Mexico Canada Venezuela Japan (Sunchem) • Competitive Situation – Applichem = Market Leader‚ Revenues $ 75 Million (1982) • Main competitor has one large plant What is the Objective? – Minimize cost? • What costs? – Transportation – Manufacturing – Fixed versus variable? • What
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SITUATION ANALYSIS Applichem is a manufacturing company producing Release-ease‚ a specialty chemical for the molding industry. On mixing with the plastic molding compound‚ Release-ease prevents any residue when the molded parts are separated from the mold. This helps in keeping the mold clean. They have six plants – one each in Gary‚ Canada‚ Frankfurt‚ Mexico‚ Venezuela and Sunchem in Japan. Each region has a different specification. This along with capacity constraints leads to export-import
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CASE 3: APPLICHEM 1. Compare the performance of Applichem’s 4 Release-ease plants. Competitive environment Applichem is a company that offers high product customization. Indeed‚ they provide solutions to specific customer problems‚ and then refine the product and process to arrive at a product with broader application. They created a product that was widely used: Release-ease. This product enabled the customers to clean easily the mold at the end of the process‚ which was a bottleneck
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Executive Summary Applichem was a Chicago based manufacturer of the specialty chemicals mainly devised as solutions to specific customer’s problems. Applichem has developed a chemical called Release-ease in 1952 as a solution to the problem faced by plastic molding industry in cleaning the stainless steel molds. This specialty chemical when added in low concentration to the plastic molding compound during the manufacturing process will ease the separation of molded parts from the mold and leave
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APPLICHEM A Case Analysis Submitted to Prof. Jishnu Hazra Indian Institute of Management‚ Bangalore on December 20‚ 2005 in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Operations Management Course in the Post Graduate Program in Management Submitted by Mahesh Bansal (0511018) Nitin Bhadauria (0511023) Rahul Parihar (0511033) Uma Gurumurthy (0511050) Yadavendra Yadava (0511057) SECTION A APPLICHEM Introduction: Release-ease was a specialty chemical developed by Applichem
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Applichem- The Transportation Problem Webster University Abstract Applichem is a Chicago based manufacturer of the specialty chemicals formulated as solutions to specific customer’s problems. It developed a chemical called Release-ease in 1952 to help in formulating a plastic molding compound which released easily from metal molds. Release-ease was a patented product and has brought Applichem steady revenues. They have multiple plants around the world to support
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Applichem (A) (Abridged) The Gary [Indiana] plant had had obvious problems for years. It was an ineffective operation. It had a fiefdom type of management. The people had grown complacent and inefficient. They had lost their technical curiosity. And the state-of-the-art technology was in Frankfurt. In the late ’70s‚ when I was business manager‚ I tried to get them to invite Ari (the Frankfurt manufacturing and technology expert) to Gary. After months of talking‚ they finally invited him to get
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Isolation of exosomes from human serum The initial volume of serum for the experiments was 4 mL per sample. The samples were diluted with an equal volume of PBS (AppliChem‚ St. Louis‚ MO) to decrease the viscosity. The diluted serum samples were centrifuged at 2‚000×g for 10 min and 10‚000×g for 30 min at 4 °C to remove dead cells and cell debris. The supernatant was transferred into Ultra-ClearTM tubes (Beckman Coulter‚ Indianapolis‚ IN) and centrifuged at 100‚000×g using a Beckman Optima XL-70
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