Making Hotplates What changes in the work situation might account for the increase in productivity and the decrease in controllable rejects? According to the article‚ the company had 10 workers that were responsible for assembling hot plates with the appropriate tools. Each person was responsible for assembling a part of the hotplate instead of the whole thing. One person would start the hotplate assembly‚ when they were finished they would pass it to the next‚ who would begin their part‚ etc
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Making Hotplates Tony Bennett Ashford University BUS644: Organizational Behavior/William Adams March 10‚ 2013 The summary will examine a company consisting of a group of workers who are responsible for assembling hotplates which are used in hospitals and medical laboratories to bring solutions to certain temperatures. A job of this nature requires a certain amount of patience and skills that some people could find hard or impossible to handle. The goal of the summary is to answer specific
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Making Hotplates Timothy Vallin BUS 644 Operations Management Instructor: Dr. Ronald Beach November 18‚ 2012 Making Hotplates A group of 10 workers were responsible for assembling hotplates. The employees were all placed on an assembly line. An assembly line is standardized layouts arranged according to a fixed sequence of assembly tasks (Stevenson‚ 2011). The assembly line was balanced by industrial engineers. Line balancing is the process of assigning tasks to workstations in such a way
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Making Hotplates 1. What changes in the work situation might account for the increase in productivity and the decrease in controllable rejects? The changes in the work situation that might account for the increase in productivity and the subsequent decrease in controllable defects are the redesign of the work flow and the increase in the work responsibility assigned to each worker. The redesign of the work flow allowed workers to assemble a unit of the hotplate instead of only a part over and over
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carries heat away from the hot plates at a rate dependent on wind speed. Providing power to maintain the hot-plate temperatures at their set point values can provide the quantification of wind speed. Similarly‚ raindrops landing on one of the hotplates will evaporate causing a further power drain on this plate. This project is to design‚ build and calibrate this sensor using Labview. 2 BACKGROUND By keeping the two heated plates at a constant set point temperature it is possible to measure
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information in the case study‚ the morale of the employee’s involved in the manufacturing of Hotplates is extremely low. Due to this the controllable rejects are almost 23%. The reasons behind lack of employee motivation are analyzed as repetition of work and partial involvement that lack the outcome. To overcome the problem management decided to dedicate the entire manufacturing process of single hotplate to an individual employee. The change of assigning the whole job to a particular employee is
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Erlenmeyer flask and heat the water to a gentle boil using a hotplate. 3. On a second hotplate‚ place a 125 mL Erlenmeyer flask containing the one gram of unknown solid along with a boiling chip. 4. Using a ring clamp‚ slowly pour approx. 5-10 mL of boiling water into the flask containing the impure substance- does not need to be exact 5. After water is added‚ swirl the mixture for one minute while maintain the solution temperature on the hotplate. 6. Continue adding small amounts (3-5 mL) of boiling water
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Week Two Assignment: Making Hotplates Keidra R. Conner BUS 644 Operations Management Dr. Jamal Batta January 7‚ 2013 1. What changes in the work situation might account for the increase in productivity and the decrease in controllable rejects? The changes in the work situation that might account for the increase in productivity and the decrease in controllable defects are the redesign of the work flow and the increase in the work responsibility assigned
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the hotplate‚ and also to use tongs when picking up a hot beaker. In order to create successful chemical reactions‚ we followed the procedures properly. We started with a small amount of cooper powder in a beaker‚ and added nitric acid to it while the beaker was under a fume hood. We removed the beaker as soon as it was safe to and next we added 25mL of water to the current blue solution. We then added sodium hydroxide to the beaker and then proceeded to place the beaker on to a hotplate and stir
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Sam Chu (Jacob Gorman and Tyler Kui) Lab #1: Separation of a Mixture Mr. Mejia 10/3/14 Separation of a Mixture Lab Report Abstract The purpose of the experiment was to separate an initial heterogeneous mixture composed of 5.00 grams of salt‚ 2.00 grams of sand‚ 50.0 mL of water‚ 15.00 grams of pebbles‚ and 1.00 gram of iron filings‚ and leave as much salt as possible remaining. Using separation techniques including magnetizing‚ evaporation‚ filtration‚ etc. the heterogeneous mixture was thoroughly
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