1. For an 18-inch pipeline designed for 150‚000 barrels per day‚ what is the short-run cost per barrel (per thousand miles) of transporting crude oil if the throughput is (a) 50‚000 barrels per day (b) 100‚000 barrels per day (c) 150‚000 barrels per day? Using chart 7‚ a) Cost of transporting 50‚000 barrels would be 30 cents. b) Cost of transporting 100‚000 barrels would be 17 cents. c) Cost of transporting 150‚000 barrels would 16 cents. 2. Can a 16-inch pipeline with 10‚000 horsepower transport
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Pauline Hanson was elected to the Australian house representatives at the general election of March 2‚1996‚and her involvement in Australian politics continues still continues today‚ Pauline Hanson’s ideology was extreme right winged and played on peoples fears of multiculturalism and mass migration‚ whilst like most politicians she has intentions ‚her knowledge was limited and was rather xenophobic. her politics concentrated on the restrictions of people of foreign countries migrating to Australia
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differences‚ the usage and design differences. The MRP design profile points out that it has high production flexibility‚ there is a high degree of order tracking. This system needs high data accuracy and lots of computer use. As well there is high schedule flexibility and a changeable organization of the shop floor. About the usage features‚ we can say that the production lead time is very long and the production batch size is large. This system is focus in the labor resource efficiency. The inventory
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Toyota Production System (TPS) Toyota Production System The practical expression of Toyota’s people and customer-oriented philosophy is known as the Toyota Production System (TPS). This is not a rigid company-imposed procedure but a set of principles that have been proven in day-to-day practice over many years. Many of these ideas have been adopted and imitated all over the world. TPS has three desired outcomes: * To provide the customer with the highest quality vehicles‚ at lowest possible cost
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Manufacturing Production Plan Pedro A Rios Jr.‚ Nelson Christensen‚ Teresa Swander‚ Chrystal Marcum and Kapricia Crosby University of Phoenix Operations Management OPS 571 Ashley Carr January 10‚ 2011 Riordan Production Plan Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan’s main customers range from automotive parts manufacturers to the Department of Defense. One of Riordan’s main productions is plastic
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Production Possibility Curve Name Academic Institution Class Professor Date Production Possibility Curve The production possibility curve (PPC) is defined as a theory that highlights the factors that limit a process the difficulties of making a choice‚ and the opportunity costs associated with making that decision (Hochstein‚ 2014‚ p. 343). Any time a decision is made by a manufacturer of a good‚ or a country making exports of goods to ready global buyers‚ the best decisions need
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for Lean Manufacturing as it is concerned with stability and standardization to bring about improved safety‚ quality‚ delivery performance and cost control. Why a basis for Lean? Lean Manufacturing is a methodology derived from the Toyota Production System (TPS) which originated in post World War II Japan. It came about when Kiichiro Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno amongst others explored means of making a high variety of quality cars at minimal cost‚ given the lack of capital expenditure available
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Toyota’s Current Production The current distribution of Toyota production faculties are 10 in the United States‚ 3 in Canada and one in Mexico. Toyota began setting up production facilities back in 1984‚ when it became partners with General Motors Corp believing it was important to have manufacturing and production facilities on site‚ to better cater to the needs of the customer in that local market. Since that time sales have sky rocketed and they have production facilities in North America
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Understanding Core Concepts That Drive Toyota Toyota is a world leader in car manufacturing and is well known to have developed a system of principles that keep them ahead of their competitors. Understanding The Toyota Way is more than copying down Toyota’s list of 14 management principles; it involves careful consideration of how Toyota has achieved a company-wide standard of excellence. In part this achievement is by teaching every employee to be a leader and intrinsically motivated to better
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fertilizer production line before‚ so today we will say something about organic fertilizer production line. It has such features as srtificial several bags of ingredients‚ production lines‚ compact structure‚ easy operation‚ small equipment investment.Have a variety of device configuration plan choice‚ output per hour 6 t ~ 15 t.Especially suitable for fertilizer dealers‚ small and medium-sized fertilizer production enterprises. The main advantages of organic fertilizer production line are in
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