In our productivity class, we were told to write an article on the Air Conditioning Vents report we were told to read. The report talks about making these vents, and shows diagrams of the assembly-line and the times. The article mentions that the production speed is not where it should be, and the customer has had to stop production. The article talks about Waste Categories. Some of the wastes mention din the article are Overtime, Inventory at each station, 15 People required to run the assembly line (this is wasteful to have too many employees), and they cant meet customer demand sometimes. In our class, we learned about Push. This AC Vent assemvly line is an example of push, because of the directions the arrows are shown on the chart. We also learned about Pull …show more content…
This data is shown in the chart called Cycle Time. This chart shows the amount of seconds it takes at each station for the work to get done. In our MCEN 2352 class we talked about Workstations when we did our Airplane simulation. This chart is an example of workstations and workstation balancing. Another issues with the AC vent assembly line is the long time it takes for the operators to go get more parts. This is one of the 7 Wastes, which is a Time waste. (Because the operator is wasting time, and not doing productivr work while they are going to get more parts). Every time the opartor goes to get parts, it takes him 10 minutes. This happens every two hours. That means that every day, in a regular 8 hour shift, there is 40 minutes wasted. They should buy bigger bins so that they only have to fill up the bins once per day. This would cut down on the waste of Overtime. Another of the Observations, number 7, talks about Unecessary stages are added, which adds time and space. These are also wastes. To improve the process, they should get rid of the extra stages. This would lead to an increase in
Try to reduce overall production runs by aggregating different orders, thereby increasing batch size. Marketing strategy of delay in turnaround time is required to achieve this
To help mitigate the immediate supply crisis, Steve arranged for the Italian machinery tech- nicians to fine-tune the existing machines and increase capacity by 10 percent. However, Steve was not sure how long the equipment would be able to operate under this type of production schedule.
For this question, as it asks for times, I have made a chart for this.
In this experiment, the solid copper metal was weighed to get the initial mass to later compare the mass to the copper after all the reactions. The copper was put into a 250 ml beaker under the fume hood in order to measure excess amounts of 15.8 M nitric acid, HNO3 because the copper has to be the limiting reactant in order to change the state of matter of the copper. It needs to be aqueous instead of a solid. (Cu(s) + 4 HNO3 (aq) -> Cu(NO3)2 (aq) + 2 NO2 (g) + 2 H2O (aq)). After the reactants have reacted, 25 mL of water was added to the beaker to dilute the dangerous acid in the beaker for safety. Then 4 squirts of potassium hydroxide, KOH, was added to react with what’s now in the beaker, Cu(NO3), and this caused another reaction to happen (Cu(NO3)2 (aq) + 2 KOH (aq) -> Cu(OH)2 (s) + 2 KOH3 (aq)). Now the
Distributors are not happy about the price added onto the motors compile them also to do the same for
However this costs for many workers to work,and this results in tons of unnecessary landfill each year.Purchasing bins and hiring staff will cost money to state.
I would work with the client to break down the task into procedures with expectations established so we both will be able to complete the task in a timely manner with expected results. Yet, I would also mention the concern of how sudden changes like this one may affect the high level of performance in the long term for optimal customer
The scheduling of hours of work is undoubtedly one of the major social problems of industrial society. Statistic estimates that 30% of Canada's workforce are involved in some kind of shiftwork. Of those, 33% work irregular shifts, just under 30% work rotating shifts, 17% work long term evening shifts, 10% work on call, 3% work split shifts, 3% work long term night shifts and just over 3% are classed as "other". Present estimates tell us that before the trend slows, fully 35% of the workforce will work some type of shiftwork (Siroonian 123). Companies are feeling the need to maximize their efficiency by spreading their operating costs over 24 hours. However, on the other hand, working other than the standard
Our Chatham factory is a part of Navistar International and producing Navistar’s world famous premium conventional heavy trucks. As an assembly supervisor I have observed that our Just in Time (JIT) assembly procedure were frequently disrupted due to incomplete supply of “Kits” by our key supplier Trimco Industries which contains interior trim parts. Our company is facing challenges to uphold our company strategy “do it right first time”, production of quality trucks and meet delivery schedule.
Lets begin initially by discussing the amount of time we are proposing. Only six days a year compared to the amount of time it takes those items to decompose makes the time irrelevant. Considering “plastic can take 1,000 years to decompose; glass can remain in a landfill for up to 4,000 years,” the benefits of implementing a day to recycle every sixty days makes logical sense for them to be acclimated in our school calendar (CostOwl.com). Also, we need to consider the initial start up fees for purchasing bins, equipment, and market strategies reduces waste but creates revenue in our local community. With employment dwindling, it is necessary consider waste management as a revenue. We would all like to consider recycling as a motivate for a healthy environment, strong wildlife population, and beautiful community realistically waste management and recycling employs “more than 1 million American jobs” (CostOwl.com). This leaves us to consider not only maintaining the current jobs employed but encourage growth within the
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3) Interaction with people who use the part – Mr. Watkins frequently visits the plant floor and talks with the workers to see if there are any concerns with materials. If a need exists, a requisition form is filled out and the purchase will be made. These requests are usually from members of the engineering team and each engineering manager is responsible for forecasting, quality, and controlling cost for his/her specific section.
Interior trim was provided for each truck in the form of”kits” that contained a specific group of sequenced interior trim parts necessary to complete each truck. When “kits” were delivered to Navistar assembly, problem arose when assemblers attempted to assemble the trim into truck, were not able to do so because of missing or inappropriate interior trim parts. therefore, the subsequent consequences of trim parts reordering, additional material handling, post-assembling resulted in the premium on direct materials, labor costs and the delivery delay of finished truck.
The parts manufacturing process, especially for molds that were previously manufactured and maintained in inventory, is a somewhat different process than that for mold fabrication. Raw material ordered for this process usually takes a week to arrive, contributing to an extended lead time for delivery of parts to clients. Custom Molds' practice of ordering raw materials only after the specification review is clearly affecting the timely delivery of its orders, and in the parts manufacturing industry where delivery times are critical, this can affect the company's relationships with clients.