Reflection Paper For The Goal : A Process Of Ongoing Improvement

Andrews will build highly automated factories to meet the low-tech expectations. Consumers in the low-tech market

Due to the recent economy situation and ever challenging business environment, for the whole of last year, the company recorded cost hike and sales decline. This has impacted the bottom line (profitability) of the company. The top management sees that urgent action plans need to be put in place for continuous survival of the company.

Explain what should be considered when selecting a production method to suit a given product

The first way throughput can be increased is by making sure that the bottleneck’s time is not wasted. According to the text, this means that a bottleneck should never be sitting idle or working on defective parts. When a bottleneck is down for an hour, it is not only the cost of the bottleneck that is lost, but the cost of the entire system. This is because the bottleneck’s capacity is equal to the entire system’s capacity, and whatever a bottleneck produces in one hour is what the corporation produces in one hour. In addition, if a bottleneck works on defective parts or parts that are not needed, it is a waste of time that the bottleneck could be spending on good parts that are needed. Without good parts from a bottleneck, you can’t sell a product or generate throughput.

My interaction with the client was more on the line with solution-focused. With the solution-focused approach the client has knowledge of what would make his life better, even though they may need some considerable help describing the details of their better life and that everyone who seeks help already possesses at least the minimal skills necessary to create solutions. Patient was focusing on what he can do to make his life better.

During the first half of my Integrated Practicum, I was independent for the most time, applying my critical thinking, decision-making, communication, and research abilities, but I also asked for assistance or support from my Preceptor and CCD if difficult question raised. I followed the CHNC standards of building trusting relationship and demonstrated professional accountability, responsibility, and adaptability in approaching clients, groups, community partners, nurses, peers, and other professionals. I worked collaboratively in teams and fostered growth with other nursing students by sharing knowledge or alternative approaches or offering the topics to explore. I am confident that I am gaining the necessary

The topic in class for this week was herbs and herbal therapy, and guided imagery/visualization. In the textbook on chapter 16, there are so many common herbs and dietary supplements listed. I am familiar with some of the herbs and supplements, such as acai, ginger, lavender, saw palmetto, clover, noni, ginseng, chamomile, garlic, aloe vera, turmeric, fish oil, green tea, cranberry, chondroitin sulfate, glucosamine, kelp, soy, and cinnamon. However, there are many that I have never even heard about. It was so interesting knowing that there are so many alternative remedies available to us other than the chemical ones.

Worthington Industries Inc. is a “global, diversified, metals manufacturing company” (Worthington Industries, Inc., 2016). The business plans to continue growth by implementing more manufacturing plants in different geographic locations. To do this, the business must strategically plan the implementation of the new plants in order to maintain quality while offering affordability to existing and new customers. As part of the implementation plan the objectives, functional tactics, action items, milestones, task ownership, and resource allocation will be discussed. There will be a need in changing management strategies to enhance successful outcome of the new communities. Some key success factors to ensure success is budget and forecasted financials. If indeed the environment factors such as economic hardships arise a contingency plan will be in place.

This self-assessment and Reflection Paper is about the questions on page 109. The main arguments are ontological, teleological, and ontological.

The improvement goal is to determine the cause for the deficiency and take corrective measures to correct the issue. After a thorough evaluation of the teacher, appropriate strategies will be implemented to help the teacher eliminate the deficiency and improve his/her teaching performance in the classroom, which will consequently lead to the success of the students.

I read the fictional book called, The goal: A process of ongoing improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff cox. Goldratt has an extensive history of writing novels about business problems and their solutions. His list of work includes; The race, The haystack syndrome, What is This Thing Called Theory of Constraints and How Should it be Implemented?, It’s not luck, critical chain, and necessary but not sufficient. With his most recent work being in 2009 called Isn’t it obvious focusing on retail. The authors purpose for writing this book would be to educate and show examples on how to think outside the box or solve solutions, possibly even save companies. In his own words, “This book is an attempt to show that we can postulate a very small number of assumptions and utilize them to explain a very large spectrum of industrial phenomena” (Goldratt, Intro to revised edition page 2). He states he wants to show that these methods aren’t fantasy and have been/are working in pants around the world, and says that, “Finally, and most importantly, I wanted to show that we can all be outstanding scientists. The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see” (Goldratt, Introduction page 2). This story is about a failing or close to failing manufacturing plant in a place called Bearington. The novel begins with the main character Alex Rogo, a

I am now approaching the conclusion of my college career and starting to adjust to work life. This is a period of self-reflection and an attempt to put everything I learned into perspective. During this period of my life, I have been constantly thinking and contemplating my future. I feel very anxious yet nervous during this time while I am adjusting to this new stage of my life. When I was in High school my life was very structured, because I could be very dependent on peoples help and I obviously still lived with my family. When I went to college, I had to break away from that feeling of dependency and start the adjusting to adulthood. In college there was more responsibility and I started to become more independent. This was a crucial step in my life but choosing a career is going to be an even bigger step. It is a bigger step because; I have to start structuring my career goals and family goal for the future. At this moment all I can think about is my career, and how I can I keep improving myself for work life.

In operations management, the bottleneck theory is a clarification of what happens when a particular section of the production system operates at a lower level than the rest of the system. Understanding the bottleneck theory is imperative for anyone involved in operations management, as it permits an individual to optimize the efficiency of the business.

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.

Small lots with shorter setup times reduced from hour to minuet and it’s increase flexibility to respond to demand changes. Shingo as a genius at the task reduced setup time on a 1000 ton press from 6 hours to 3 minuets using SMED ( single-minute exchange of dies ) system. SMED principle can apply in separate internal setup from external setup. Its also can convert internal setup to external setup. Besides that, it can streamline all aspect of setup and perform setup activities in parallel or eliminate them entirely.