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What is the overall reliability that bank loans will be processed accurately if each of the 5 clerks shown in the chart has the reliability shown?
Robert Klassan Manufacturing, a medical equipment manufacturer, subjected 100 heart pacemakers to 5,000 hours of testing.
David Hall, chief of the maintenance department at Mechanical Dynamics, has presented you with the following failure curve. What does it suggest?
Given the following conditional value table, determine the appropriate decision under uncertainty using: Maximin
Determine the alternative that provides Andrew the greatest expected monetary value (EMV).
If you pay a premium, Wing says he can improve all four of the backup units to .93. What is the reliability of this option?
As VP for operations at Méndez-Piñero Engineering, you must decide which product design, A or B, has the higher reliability.
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?