Operation Management Homework
Learning Outcome:
1. Understand the concept of process selection, forecasting, capacity planning, production forecast methods and schedule operations.
2. Apply knowledge and skills to optimize production objective of maximizing profits using qualitative and quantitative techniques in related areas of operations management.
3. Exhibit the knowledge of lean system, quality controls and green systems
Task
Problem I:
Workers should be given more control over the inspection for their own work. Discuss the pros and cons of this situation?
Problem II:
1. What are the advantages of Exponential smoothing over the Moving average and the Weighted moving average?
2. Explain the aggregate planning strategy?
Problem II:
Sequence the jobs shown below by using a Gantt chart. Sequence the jobs in priority order 1, 2, 3, 4.
Job Work Center/Machine Hours Due Date (days)
1 A/3, B/2, C/2 3
2 C/2, A/4 2
3 B/6, A/1, C/3 4
4 C/4, A/1, B/2 3
1. Using finite capacity scheduling, draw a Gantt chart for the schedule.
2. What is the makespan?
3. How much machine idle time is there?
4. How much idle time (waiting time) is there for each job?
5. When is each job delivered?
6. Which department is the bottleneck?
7. Calculate the machine utilization?
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.