Introduction Hugo Schaeffer‚ vice president of operations at receiving plant 1 (RP1)‚ runs a large cranberry processing plant. He is faced with many issues; the industry is changing dramatically and Hugo needs to make some key changes in his plant to keep up with new trends. In order to do this‚ Hugo has asked us to examine the cranberry processing method at RP1. The following are our findings and recommendations to Hugo. Hugo has informed us of the following problems and asked us to identify
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National Cranberry Cooperative Case 20090562 Political Science Junki Hong To begin with‚ this assignment is done with Kim Seo Yeon (20100472‚ Sociology). National Cranberry Cooperative Case is the study done by the Harvard Business School about a process of warehousing from the delivery and arriving of cranberry to a manufacturing in the warehouse. National Cranberry Cooperative was an organization formed and owned by growers of cranberries to process and markets their berries. The handling
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Spring 2015 Student name: Ha Thu Tran Class: Operation Management 63.671. Case Study: National Cranberry Cooperative Date: Feb 19 2015 I. Background /Summary National Cranberry case is an interesting operational case study. The organization of National Cranberry was established and owned by growers of cranberries to process and market their own berries. It is a large corporation‚ which has operation in all primary growing areas of North America:
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INSTRUCTOR: Professor Wang Xiayang HOMEWORK: Case Writing –National Cranberry Cooperative NAME: JESSIE ZHOU/KOBE LIU STUDENT ID NO.: 08210359/ CLASS: 09PA STUDENT DECLARATION I declare that this assignment is my own work‚ which all sources of reference are acknowledged in full and it has not been submitted for any other course. Signature: Date: 10/10/30 NATIONAL CRANBERRY COOPERATIVE Contents 1. What are the problems facing receiving
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1. Identify the bottleneck or bottlenecks in the process. To identify the bottleneck‚ we need to find out the process capacity and flow rate. Process Num of machine Capacity per machine (bbls/hr) Total capacity (bbls/hr) 1 Truck arrive 8 75bbls/truck 600 2 Dumping 5 600 3000 3 Dry berry holding 16 250 4000 4 Dry/wet berry holding 8 250 2000 5 Wet berry holding 3 400 1200 6 Destoning 3 1500 4500 7 Dechaffing 3 1500 4500 8 Drying 3 200 600
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National Cranberry Cooperative‚ 1996 Case Study Analysis IIMA PGPX 20.04.2013 Executive Summary National Cranberry Cooperative‚ a processing and marketing firm of berries‚ is facing challenges related to operational efficiency‚ high overtime cost and lengthy queues of delivery truck. Analyses of the case lead us to the following propositions to alleviate these problems: • Channel restructuring: Current practice of manual grading misclassifies significant
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Hydraulics Laboratory Experiment Report Name: Ahmed Essam Mansour Section: "1"‚ Monday 2-5 pm Title: Date: Venturi Meter and Orifice Meter 6 November‚ 2006 Objectives: • To use the Venturi Meter and the Orifice Meter to measure the rate of discharge. • To determine the coefficient of discharge Cd for both the Venturi Meter and the Orifice Meter. Theory: A Venturi meter and an Orifice are both instruments used for measuring the rate of discharge for a fluid flowing in a pipe. These instruments
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International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS) Vol.1‚ No.2‚ December 2011‚ pp. 139~147 ISSN: 2088-8694 139 Microcontroller Based Single Phase Digital Prepaid Energy Meter for Improved Metering and Billing System Md. Mejbaul Haque1‚ Md. Kamal Hossain2‚ Md. Mortuza Ali3‚ Md. Rafiqul Islam Sheikh3 Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering‚ Khulna University of Engineering & Technology‚ Khulna-9203‚ Bangladesh 2 Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering‚ Dhaka
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Detailed analysis of case study ModMeters History‚ Development and Growth of the company This Company was originally founded in North America and established the name as Modern Meters and later it was called as ModMeters in short (MM) . ModMeters generally produces metering components of all types‚ which were highly specialized and were great in demand. In early 1960s‚ the company had gradually automated almost every aspect of its business from finance and accounting
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A pH meter is an electronic instrument used to measure the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of a liquid (though special probes are sometimes used to measure the pH of semi-solid substances). A typical pH meter consists of a special measuring probe (a glass electrode) connected to an electronic meter that measures and displays the pH reading. The probe The pH probe measures pH as the activity of hydrogen ions surrounding a thin-walled glass bulb at its tip. The probe produces a small voltage (about 0
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