Decision Analysis

A. In order to improve the current workflow in the plant, I recommend using the work stations layout tool whether through the Excel or POM program. This will help to show a clearer picture of the work flow that is present at Shuzworld, with allotting equal times in each work station. This will enable the company to find the shortest time to be used in each station for optimal performance and production of all shoes. Decision Analysis has been established to advance theory, application, and teaching of all aspects of decision-making methods.

The pieces to work stations or to operator in the production line or line segment is 2000 to 15 or 400 to 3 based on 15 direct labor employees. (See question 2)

It is my recommendation that Shuzworld change their facilities layout to create a better workflow. You can accomplish this by breaking the current structure and reorganizing the workstations to accomplish tasks in a more time efficient manner and maximizing an employees’ time spent on the product. Utilizing the Case Study we can surmise that each eight hour shift must produce forty-eight work boots. 8 hours times 60 minutes equals 480 minutes. 480 minutes (The Work Shift) divided by 48 (the number of work boots required) equals 10. One work boot must be completed in 10 minutes to meet production goals. Let’s take a look at the steps involved

The purpose of the author writing The Goal was to recall his experience of having the task of fixing his plant, he is a plant manager at a manufacturing company. The author presents the reader with an idea of the problem that the plant is incurring and he uses fundamentals of business to see if he can find a solution to these problems before he and the rest of his plant finds himself unemployed. While doing this, he finds the flaws within the plant and how the mindset of keeping things even isn't what makes a manufacturing company thrive like other companies due to things like inventory cost and cost goods sold that not all business structures are influenced by, by setting forth different methods of production he wants to fix the

The Help is a movie set during the civil rights movement in the 1960s (Taylor, 2011). It captures the tension, which was boiling between the black and white residents in Jackson, MI. Skeeter Phelan is an aspiring author who decides to return home to Jackson after completing her degree. What Skeeter does not realize until she comes back home, is how conscious she has become to the discrimination in which she grew up. After coming to this realization, Skeeter decides to write a book capturing the stories from the maid’s point of view about the white families for which they work.

Amy, Like you I also think that communication is essential to be successful in this new role as a NP. As students we can take advantage of the Decision-making work sheet to strengthen our skills and work in more details to those that we may struggle with. I agree when you said that this toll will build the NP confidence to work effectively with their clinical partners and other health care members. Great

The American population is extremely diverse and is comprised of dozens of nationalities, multiple age groups as well as ethnic circles. Such a melting pot of cultural variety gives us opportunities to make new connections with the folks of different life-styles and mentalities. We choose freely when and with whom those relationships form and how long they last. Without a doubt, American lives evolved and became thoroughly customized over the course of the past several decades. After all, each one of us decides which path to take in life. Every day we’re faced with a process of decision-making that’s based on either planning or impulsivity, this especially pertains to our shopping patterns and consumer behavior. Over the years, advertisers and corporate giants developed a variety of strategies meant to influence our spending power, and while seemingly harmless, I believe these strategies negatively affect our society. Social standards are lowered—within the teenage population—through the repetitive

Work cell methods have proven to be an effective method of production, where it reduces material, improves employee movement, makes inspections easier, and it enhances communication. It will allow MEGA Intel to limit the number of employees working at a given time, saving on overtime costs. All employees will be properly trained to assist each other while in the assigned work cell, and training over better material usage and maintenance will be provided. By integrating a work cell production method, MEGA Intel computers can easily control manufacturing processes and employee efficiency; however, bottleneck operations can easily constrain the workflow. To keep bottlenecking from being a major problem, MEGA Intel employees will be cross-trained and multitasking machines will be readily available to correct problems and correct the production process.

1. Alex Rogo, a plant manager and the main character of this book was facing different problems during his work at the plant. To begin with, orders were not delivered on time where shipping dates were not met (long lead time), which created many delays with customers‘ orders, as well as big amount of work in process inventory, high inventories, low throughput and so, the plant was neither productive nor profitable. While Alex was trying to find a solution for that situation in the time frame of three month he was given by Mr. Peach, his boss, he then discovered new issues along the road thanks to his meetings with Jonah. The first issue was the robots, Alex found out that instead of creating efficiency they increased costs by not replacing other costs, operational expenses and reduce productivity; they were not replacing the cost of direct labor, instead workers were moved to different departments of the plant. Other issues were capacity management at bottlenecks (was balanced to the market demand instead of to the flow of products through the plant), works’ distribution throughout the plant was circulated to the best productive level, there was a significant amount of WIPs in front of bottlenecks which wasted time and reduce throughput as the costs per downtime increases, bottlenecks were working on parts that are not contributing to throughput. Moreover, Jonah noticed that the plant is having

The current state of the economy has had a significant impact on health care across the country. Recipients of Medicaid services have especially been hit hard in the health care arena with budget cuts and reduced services. The Maricopa County Clinic is not different when it comes to budget cuts. The department providing outpatient services to Medicaid clients has received a 15% budget cut. The current budget constraint is now going to force decisions to be made regarding what clinical services should be eliminated or what changes could best address the health care needs of Medicaid population.

Team Setup and Responsibilities: The SDT model anticipate that workers would view the production process as an aggregate of interdependent job functions that are equally responsible for the quality of the final product. Two teams of 12 – 15 people were set up for each shift. The workers are rotated through all the jobs in the factory at regular intervals, thus ensuring all workers fully understand the production process.

Mid Term KEY FORMULAE *** Ch 5 *** Earliest start time for a project activity: ES = latest EF for all immediate predecessors Earliest finish time for a project activity: EF = ES + activity’s duration Latest finish time for a project activity: LF = earliest LS for all immediate successors Latest start time for a project activity: LS = LF – activity’s duration Slack time for a project activity: Slack time = LS – ES *** Ch 7 *** Takt time: Takt time = available production time Required output rate Theoretical minimum number of workstations: I∑i=1

Other assumptions that we made for the case study were that we could only use the 7.5-hour workday and one line of production.  We also assumed that we were limited to the range of 8 to 12 people stated in the problem. Because we are making complex equipment, we assumed that we could not change the order of the operations themselves but that we could have a station do varying combinations of operations. The projections in the Excel spreadsheet also assume that the engineers’ specified times would be accurate once production begins.  Regarding the hardware testing operations, the activities are to be performed on three computers concurrently, so we divided the operation times by three to arrive at the true operation times.

When it is the matter of the production line, then it is also very important that how long has been the system is running, keeping in view the number of workers required. It is very important that how many workers have been involved in the working environment. Each station should be balanced in the process so that rate of bottleneck can be reduced. It can be

Secondly the method of communication Suresh use to communicate with his employees is not effective at all. Since it’s a manufacturing environment the workers here are from different backgrounds. They are not from better educational backgrounds & some are working from very young ages. Therefore these can help Suresh to improve the performance of his team and thereby ensure performance targets of machine number 1 are achieved.