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A typical retail transaction consists of several smaller steps, which can be considered components subject to failure.
The fire department has a number of failures with its oxygen masks and is evaluating the possibility of outsourcing preventive maintenance
Frito-Lay, the multi-billion-dollar subsidiary of food and beverage giant PepsiCo, maintains 36 plants in the U.S. and Canada.
Discuss the differences between decision making under certainty, under risk, and under uncertainty.
Jerry Bildery’s factory is considering three approaches for meeting an expected increase in demand.
Standardized, reusable containers have obvious benefits for shipping. What is the purpose of these devices within the plant?
How many minutes of setup time should she have her plant manager aim for regarding this component?
Daniel Ball is interested in treating his barbers as well as he can with steady work and preferably 5 days of work with two consecutive days off.
What is the trade-off between operator-performed maintenance versus supplier-performed maintenance?
Sara has 16 red flowers and 24 yellow flowers. She wants to make bouquets with the same number of each color flower in each bouquet.
Orlando’s Arnold Palmer Hospital, founded in 1989, specializes in treatment of women and children and is renowned for its highquality rankings.
As an initial phase of a kaizen event, discuss the many ways passengers can be loaded and unloaded from airplanes.
Discount-Mart, a major East Coast retailer, wants to determine the economic order quantity for its halogen lamps.
Pauline Found Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kanbans to support its telephone switching-board assembly lines.
Tej Dhakar’s company wants to establish kanbans to feed a newly established work cell. The following data have been provided. How many kanbans are needed?
Hartley Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners for the defense industry.
What is the setup time, based on $40 per hour setup labor? Rick Wing has a repetitive manufacturing plant producing automobile steering wheels.
Given the following information about a product at Michael Gibson’s firm, what is the appropriate setup time?
Assign each member to a different section such that Jamison Consultants’s overall cost is minimized. b) What is the total cost of these assignments?
The Johnny Ho Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio, is putting out four new electronic components.
J.C. Howard’s medical testing company in Kansas wishes to assign a set of jobs to a set of machines.
The Green Cab Company has a taxi waiting at each of four cabstands in Evanston, Illinois. Four customers have called and requested service.
Job F was to begin on day 3, but maintenance forced a delay of 1½ days. The job should now take 5 full days. It is now on schedule.
What are the two ways work centers can be loaded? What are two techniques used in loading?
Six jobs are to be processed through a two-step operation. The first operation involves sanding, and the second involves painting.