Manufacturing System Design

Question: Experienced engineer working for EMU Consultancy, is given an engineering task for improving the Mechanical pencil in The provided pen does not have any drawing or operation manual.In a recent new product survey report customer’s needs are summarized as - balletic, strong, easy to control and maintainable, durable, safe for children and comfortable with some modern (21st Century) add on-features. As a result, the improvised pr...

Question: Economic crisis In 2008, the world economy crashed and so did the “Big Three” US car manufacturers. General Motors (GM) filed for bankruptcy, Ford Corporation reported a $12.7 Billion loss, and later in 2009 Chrysler went into bankruptcy protection. However, their Japanese counterpart, Toyota Motor Company, sustained its leadership in the car industry. Toyota Motor Company considered “this headwind as a valuable op...

Questions: To Prepare An Individual Written Report To Extend The Theory Covered In The Lectures And To Apply Strategic Thinking In a Real Manufacturing Business Environment. The Report Needs To Address The Following Terms Of References.  Identify Two Competitive Rivals (Boeing And Airbus) Within An Engineering Related Business Environment. First, Define The Corporate Objectives And Strategies Of Your Identified Companies. Compare And An...

Question: Supply Chain and Lean Management Introduction Apple is an American multinational corporation founded by Steve Jobs that produces a wide variety of consumer-electronics such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets. They develop their own software and sells subscription services for movies and music. In August 2020, Apple was valued to over 2 trillion dollars (Gramstad et al., 2020). During the&...

Course Code   :  MN5543

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Questions: Learning Outcomes1. Critically evaluate and implement principles of systems approach and analysis.2. Describe, critically evaluate and appropriately apply manufacturing concepts to real world industrial systems and todesign, plan and solve arising problems that day-to-day management of such systems encounter.3. Develop the required skills for modelling, simulating and critically analysing performance of deterministic and stochastic ...

Course Code   :  BU5526

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Answers: Introduction This particular report is primarily aimed to evaluate the effect and importance of innovation and improved technology on the development of organisational performance. Toyota, which is operating in the automobile industry of the UK, is determined as one of the largest manufacturers of cars in the international domain. The adoption of technologies by Toyota, which has allowed the company to gain advantages and improve its...

Question: Background Delicious Chocolate Company (DCC) has been developing decadent Italian chocolates, and retailing them in boxed formats, for several years. DCC has to date been profitable enough to satisfy its joint owners, Emanuela and Raffaele. They have no intention of taking on the larger brands in the future, but they realise that DCC needs to shake off its present “artisan” image and expand significantly over the next 5 ye...

Questions: Assignment SubmissionStudents are required to submit their coursework through JIRA. Only assessments submitted through JIRA will be marked. Any other submission including submission to your study centre in hard copy will be treated as a non-submission.If your centre supports Turnitin©, a copy of your Turnitin© originality report must be submitted in conjunction with your assignment.   AssessmentYour work will be ass...

Tasks: Forbes Marshall’s Hr Strategies And Practices- a Case Study Established in 1925 by J. N. Marshall as a trading company, Forbes Marshall has over the years moved into building steam engineering and control instrumentation solutions for the process industry. Today, it collaborates with world technology leaders in its manufacturing operations and has a turnover of ` 750 Crores. The organisation employs over 1000 engineers and 2000 d...

Task You are working for The Beyond Future Manufacturing Ltd. You have been told that the Managing Director iskeen to promote the company in the local community. She has decided to contact the local Secondary School to tell them that some young persons will be welcome to spend time at the company during their work experience scheme.   You have been asked to undertake a risk assessment for a young person who wishes to come to the Companywh...

Task: A.Please answer the following True or False questions (each worth 2 points) 1)Affinity diagram is used to identify the root causes of a problem.   True ______   False _______ 2)A process is capable if the variations fall within +- 3 standard deviation  True ______   False______ 3)Fishbone diagram is used to organize data in categories   True ______   False _______ 4)Random varia...

Course Code   :  MBA610

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Answers: Scope Of Report Operations management is the administration of business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organisation. It focuses on changing the materials and techniques with efficient goods so that profits of organisations could be increased according to the expectation of the company (Mahadevan, 2015). In this report, “McDonald’s’s case study” is sel...

Course Code   :  ECON1001

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Questions: The Extent To Which Firms Vertically Integrate Is Determined By The Trade-Off Between Technical And Agency Efficiency”. Evaluate This Statement With Reference To The Relevant Theory And Empirical Examples. Discuss How The Principal- Agent Relation Is Linked To The Issue Of Moral Hazard? Using a Suitable Empirical Context, Assess The Severity Of The Problem And Briefly Suggest Possible Solutions To The Problem/s You Have Ident...

Course Code   :  ME7722A

Referencing Styles  :  Oxford

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Question : Title of Assessment 1. Mould CNC Machining Time Optimisation & Tool Path Verification   2. All assignments must be submitted by the date and time specified above. 3. Students are required to submit an electronic copy of their completed assignment via the Assignments section of Canvas and follow any specific instructions. Any change to this instruction will be advised via Canvas. 4. In case of illness or other issues aff...

Question: Company: Colgate-Palmolive Procurement • Total Quality Management practices • Type of inventory management • Procurement strategy • Manufacturing processes • Manufacturing strategy • Application of LEAN design Refer 6th chapter of Textbook 'Supply chain Logistics Management, 5th Edition published by McGraw-Hill Education'. The goal of the final project is to demonstrate the understanding of how well known companies a...

Task For section ‘A’ consider below guideline highlighted in yellow  Design a quality improvement program, select and identify suitable tools and techniques. Discuss the importance of performance measurement and explain how performance measurement system, benchmarking, and other techniques can help a company achieve continuous improvement.   Compare the different approaches to quality costing and evaluate the effectivene...

Course Code   :  BUS-FP4014

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Task: This course is designed to introduce you to the tools that many of the best companies in the world utilize to excel at serving their customers. Operations management is the transformation of inputs into useable outputs, incorporating all areas of management to ensure a high-quality product, delivered when the customer needs it, and at the price the customer is willing to pay. Operations management is the core of all businesses. Overview&n...

Task Shark Tank, an organization that specializes in an assortment of aquariums focused on home and offices, is a well-known organization in the Greater Toronto Area. Kevin McLeary is the sole private owner of organization with Kevin and his organization rising to fame a decade ago with a revolutionary aquarium that utilizes flashy lights and a self-cleaning system so there is little maintenance. The first tank was specifically designed to hold ...

Question: The submission is in the form of a portfolio of factsheets and an organisational flow chart document. The factsheets should be written concisely to summarise and highlight key information and data. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and sub-sections as appropriate. All work must be supported with research and referenced correctly using the Harvard referencing system. You will also need to provide a bibliography usin...

Course Code   :  HRM4801

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Question: Case Study: Pioneer Foods – Maintaining a competitive advantage  The executive teams at all the subsidiaries of PepsiCo International, including Pioneer Foods, need to ensure that they stay ahead in the game by adding value to their clients and consumers that are a cut above the rest. Nandipha Ngumbela, (Pioneer Foods Group Executive for Human Resources) and her management team also need to do their part at Pioneer foods ...

Task Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG: Break-Even Analysis Helmut Schmidt recently had been promoted to product manager for Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG, the world’s foremost manufacturer of harmonicas, accordions, melodicas, and ukuleles. He was sitting at his desk in Trossingen, Germany, reviewing his first assignment, which had just come from the company’s senior executive team. Schmidt, a marketing major...

Course Code   :  FPL4028N

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Answer: Introduction Functional beverages are nonalcoholic drink containing nontraditional ingredients like minerals, vitamins, amino acids, dietary fibers (DFs), probiotics, or added raw fruits (Raman, Ambalam & Doble 2019). In the wake of healthy eating and dieting, functional drinks have been brought into focus. Drinks that can positively impact health are preferred by the public. This can be seen to be attributed to the incidence...

Question 1. Juliet B a partner in Stamp & Hoppit, Registered Auditors, receives a telephone call from the  Managing Director of Chateaubriand Ltd which runs a chain of restaurants and bars. They wish to  appoint Stamp & Hoppit as auditors as they have a disagreement with the existing auditors. A  meeting was arranged to discuss the audit which would be due to commence in about two months’ time. The Managing Director ...

Task Case 1-1: PepsiCo: Winning with a Purpose A broad objective at PepsiCo is to win sustainability in the marketplace and to accelerate its top-line growth, while keeping its commitment to do good for the planet and for the communities its serves.  The company’s purpose is defined by three pillars of sustainable growth: 1. Products, helping to improve health and well-being through the products it sells. To do that, here are three of its g...

Course Code   :  OPS6310

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Task When you think of a hospital, what comes to mind? Patients, emergency rooms, technology and medical advancements. Making the sick and injured well again. When officials at Virginia Mason think of hospitals, they think of cars. A car manufacturing plant, to be exact. Beginning in 2000 the hospital’s leaders looked at their infrastructure and saw it was designed around them, not the patient, said Dr. Gary Kaplan, Virginia Mason’s ...