PLANT LOCATION PUZZLE BY AJAY SHARMA GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DR. BURAK KAZAZ GSB - 486 Problem: This particular case study deals with a bicycle manufacturer named The Eldora Company (EDC). It is faced with a situation where it has prospered in the local marketplace but is suffering from stagnant growth potential. Much of their problem is due to heavy low-cost competition and a saturated marketplace. Management is therefore burdened with the decision to manufacture offshore (i
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FACILITIES PLANNING INTRODUCTION 1 Omar Ghrayeb‚ Ph.D. - Department of Industrial Engineering‚ NIU Facilities Planning Facilities Planning deals with the design of industrial plants. It start with analysis of the product and end up with the plan of the factory to manufacture the proposed product. The outcome of this process is a set of drawings and procedures. Although in this lecture we talk about manufacturing plants‚ all ideas‚ principles‚ and procedures are similarly applied to service
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A Facility layout is the physical configuration of departments‚ workstations‚ and equipments in the conversion process. it is arrangement of physical resources used to create the product. Success of operations depends on the physical layouts of the facilities. Flow of raw material. Productivity and human relationship are all affected by the arrangements of the conversion facilities. Plant layout involves: i) planning and arranging facilities in new plant ii) improvements in existing layout
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Standard kitchen layouts During the last fifty years‚ most designers were building on three types of kitchen layouts: the L-shaped kitchen‚ the U-shaped kitchen and the gallery kitchen. The gallery layout was very suitable for small kitchens. All these three layouts had one thing in common: the work triangle concept. They all placed the three main kitchen components (the refrigerator‚ the stove and the sink) in a triangular position. Modern trends Another research study conducted more recently
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.65625 3. Process Step 1 production lead time 5 days Process Step 2 production lead time 3.5 days Process Step 3 production lead time 5.2 days Process Step 4 production lead time 2.3 days 4. 60 seconds is the processing time of this manufacturing cell 5. Press 7200 seconds/1000 = 7.2 seconds 7.2 seconds + 3 seconds = 10.2 seconds is the time needed to produce 1 part 10.2 seconds X 1000 = 10‚200 10‚200 seconds / 60 = 170 minutes to produce 1000 units This would leave 208 minutes of idle
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CTS240 - Case Study 2 New Manufacturing Facility in China Case Questions: 1. Is there anything the team should have done when they received only three proposals by June 30? The team should have advertised an extension of the deadline for proposals another 30 days‚ and notified those companies that did submit proposals that the deadline was extended and should they wish to modify their proposals‚ they could. 2. Should the team consider the proposal from Asia General Contractors? Why or why
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Pearson Education Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice‚ 2nd Edition Wiley Text Books COST ACCOUNTING: A MANAGERIAL EMPHASIS‚ 12TH ED. Prentice hall of india Cryptography and Network Security : Principles and Practice‚ 4/e Pearson Education India Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems‚ 7th edition Pearson Education India Digital Image Processing‚ 2/e Pearson Education India Digital Integrated Circuits‚ 2/e Pearson Education India DISCRETE MATHEMATICS WITH GRAPH THEORY‚ 2ND ED. Prentice hall
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PROCESS AND FACILITY SANITATION Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures is the common name give to the sanitation procedures in food production plants which are required by the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA and regulated by 9 CFR part 416 in conjunction with 21 CFR part 178.1010. It is considered one of the prerequisite programs of HACCP. Introduction A clean surface is defined as being free from soil (e.g. food residues)‚ free from bad odours‚ be non-greasy to the touch
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Introduction The principle source of any organization is the people managing its people are the most important aspect of managing organization. No longer is manpower one of the resources in industries or business and establishment. It is the most important of all resources. Manpower is that resource through which the management directs and controls resources like material‚ money‚ machines and others. A. Human resource management: "Personnel management is the planning‚ organizing‚ directing
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ENGINEERING SMU 3852 FACILITIES PLANNING Lecturer Affandi M. Zainal Room : C23-324 Tel : 07 – 553 4644 / 016 – 722 4500 E mail : affandi@utm.my UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA 1 COURSE OBJECTIVES • • • Effeciency and effectiveness of an industrial organization is dependent on the design of the facilities offered in such an organization. Facilities d i i l d F iliti design includes‚ among other things‚ th thi selection of facilities location‚ facilities layout design‚ storage
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