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production management essay assignment
production management essay assignment
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Order Number |
9568024368 |
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Type of Project |
ESSAY |
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Writer Level |
PHD VERIFIED |
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Format |
APA |
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Academic Sources |
10 |
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Page Count |
3-12 PAGES |
Instructions/Descriptions
production management essay assignment
COURSE NAME: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
The students need to prepare the assignment individually in essay format submitting only one pdf file for all 3 parts.
PART 1:
FLOW CHART EXERCISE (20%):
Go to the next link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2plIal6HmU and draw the flow chart of the process how TOOTHBRUSHES are made.
PART 2:
PRODUCTIVITY AND MEASUREMENT RATIOS (5O% in total – 15% for question 1; 35% for question 2)
- A gearbox manufacturing company has provided the following data. Compare the labor, raw materials and supplies and total productivity of 1996 and 1997. Provide a conclusion and recommendations.
Output: Sales value of production in dollar ($)
22,000 (in 200) and 35,000 (in 2001)
2000 2001
Inputs: Labor 10,000 15,000
Raw materials and Supplies 8,000 12,500
Capital equipment depreciation 700 1,200
Other 2,200 4,800
- How can you define the concept of “productivity” in production and operations management? What are the benefits derived from higher productivity? Prove your answer by selecting one company from sweets/bakery industries and explain which techniques does the selected company use to improve productivity.
PART 3:
CONTEXTUALIZED LAYOUT COMPARISON: (30%)
In a magnet factory the boss is considering a reorganisation of the lay-out. She is considering the two proposals below. Which is the best way? Complete the table below and justify your recommendation with the reasons why.
Activity 1= 10 seconds; Activity 2= 25 seconds; Activity 3= 50 seconds;
Activity 4= 45 seconds; Activity 5= 30 seconds; Activity 6= 30 seconds
If you work with only 3 workers, the new lay-out is:
| LAY-OUT 1 | LAY-OUT 2 | |
| 1.Productivity | ||
| 2.Resources needed | ||
| 3.Bottlenecks | ||
| 4.Standardization | ||
| 5.Multitasking | ||
| 6.Specialization |
Recommendations and Justification
Submission: 31st of October 2021 at 23:59 CEST – Via Moodle (Turnitin).
Weight: This task is 30% of your total grade for this subject.
Formalities:
- Wordcount for both assignments: 700 words.
- Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
- Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
- Text alignment: Justified.
- The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
- Outcome 1: Understand the production management within operation management.
- Outcome 2: Describe operations processes design and their management to contextualize and improve production performance.
- Outcome 3: Assess lay-out design and evaluate facility location.
Rubrics
| Exceptional 90-100 | Good 80-89 | Fair 70-79 | Marginal fail 60-69 | |
| Knowledge & Understanding (25%) | Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner. | Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary. | Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary. | Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary. |
| Application (30%) | Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. | Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. | Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident. | Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident. |
| Critical Thinking (30%) | Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors. | Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references. | Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant. | Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources. |
| Communication (15%) | Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck | Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck | Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident. | Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.
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production management essay assignment
